My internal DVD Drive is shot, and does not take in disks. I am not under warrenty, applecare, etc and would cost a fortune to fix the internal drive. I have a HP external USB dvd drive. How would I put the mac leopard install disk in the external drive and boot from it?

Note: I have no access to the mac part of the hard drive. Only the windows side. THX

What might have caused this? My computer’s hard drive is formatted with NTFS and the external usb drive is formatted with Fat-32

ok i just bought this computer and it is used…. and when i turn it on it says something like disk failure and it takes 4 or 5 times turning it on and off before it reads my hard drive. is my hard drive going bad in it or is it the motherboard? here are some specs on my computer

AMD Athelon xp 3000+ processor (2.16GHz)
512 MB Ram (upgradeable to 2 G)
160GB (7200 rpm) Ultra DMA HD
SATA hookups
DVD+RW/CD-RWcombo drive
DVD/CD Rom Drive
Floppy drive

2 front USB 2.0 and 1 front firewire port
additional 4 USB 2.0s in the back and additional single firewire port also in the back.
modem and ethernet

thanks
yea the hard drive is hooked up correctly
it is not loose and i have format it and i have formatted it like 15 times and stuff and it still does the same thing