Flip Wilson wrote:

I installed windows 7 a few weeks ago. Now my DVD drive isn't available to
boot from. The drive is detected in my BIOS, and works fine once windows
boots. Any help would be appreciated.

Well, that does NOT mention if you could boot from the DVD drive *before*
installing Windows 7 (assuming you were using some OS on the same host
before you moved to Windows 7). So were you able to boot from that drive
before?

Did you check the boot drive order in your BIOS settings?