CDROM support on boot disk...

I'm trying to do an FDISK & FORMAT before reinstalling WinME. I have a boot disk that I created a year ago. I read that I should make sure I have CDROM support before starting, so I booted to the floppy, selected "Start Computer with CD-ROM support" and at A: prompt I typed DIR E:. I received "CDR101: Not ready reading drive E-  Abort, Retry, Fail?" I tried DIR F: ( I have an NEC DVD drive in E: and a TDK CD/RW in F:) to no avail. After a bit of Googling I found and copied the drivers for my DVD drive onto the boot disk and tried again. Still no luck. So even though the boot floppy has BTCDROM.SYS and CDROM.SYS it does not appear to support my optical drives, which means after reformatting I can't load my WinME disk.
 
My BIOS shows an ATAPI CDROM, does that mean I need an actual CDROM drive in order for it to be recognised? Do I have to add my DVD drive to the boot sequence? If so, how would that be done?

 

Thanks.

 

mccd