you could just buy a sata dvd rw or a ide to sata converter I bought a couple off ebay for less than a tenner
Failsafes are better they are just like clearing the cmos without losing you date settings
BTW when you say its not showing up in bios where have you looked? have you selelcted boot menu and tried to boot from it there? I have to ask cuz a lot of people who ask questions here do not really know what they are looking at I do not assume this is the case but I have to ask
