my computer is running windows XP home edition and my cd rom started acting funny, sometimes opening and other times not. I replaced the hard drive and cd writer and now during bios setup the hard drive is there but the dr writer and the dvd rom is not......not sure what to do.
Help...Cd-writer and dvd rom not recognized
- Thread starter tpellerin
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You may want to look over how you configured the jumpers on the drives themselves as well as trying a different ide cable if they are both on the secondary. Generally a message will appear on the initial bios post screen if the mastered drive on either primary or secondary cables is no good or is not connected while one is on the slave connector there.
The drive on the end of the cable is set to master with the second drive on the center connector set to slave for optical drives while ide hard drives may be set to cable select. Make sure you plugged them in too. If you simply forgot to do that the bios can't see them.
The drive on the end of the cable is set to master with the second drive on the center connector set to slave for optical drives while ide hard drives may be set to cable select. Make sure you plugged them in too. If you simply forgot to do that the bios can't see them.
On IDE 1 set your harddrive as master and the cd-rom as slave, On IDE 2 set your burner as master!
Any reason why you are wanting him to put Hard Drive and CD drive on same channel?
I've heard pro's and con's about this and i always recommend keeping HD's and cdroms on separate channels.
Either way, you can put it as slave to the burner!
one more thing
As i go to make sure it set right, just wanted to share this....if its helpful. In the BIOS main page it has
Primary master [hard drive]
Primary slave [none]
Secondary master [none]
Secondary slave [BOMBE]
I've never seen this BOMBE before, what does that mean?
As i go to make sure it set right, just wanted to share this....if its helpful. In the BIOS main page it has
Primary master [hard drive]
Primary slave [none]
Secondary master [none]
Secondary slave [BOMBE]
I've never seen this BOMBE before, what does that mean?
Thanks everyone
Your valued input solved the problem for me. However the information I got from the service tech might have been wrong. If my problem was my cd-rom drive then possibly there was nothing wrong with my old hard drive. Would you suggest I connect the old drive and make it the slave on the IDE 1 cable connected to my main hard drive?
Your valued input solved the problem for me. However the information I got from the service tech might have been wrong. If my problem was my cd-rom drive then possibly there was nothing wrong with my old hard drive. Would you suggest I connect the old drive and make it the slave on the IDE 1 cable connected to my main hard drive?
Here the cd writer is the secondary master with the dvd burner as slave. The bios item there is a little odd suggesting either a bad drive or part of the cable is foobar. You can use a second drive for storage and backing up the primary as well as possibly dual OSing the system. Occasionally I run a Linux distro on the second hard drive while at present running XP Pro. The 2nd drive is split with a large 2nd partition used for long term and temp storage as well.
You will find it much easier to install the second hard drive in a slot underneath the primary drive and trying to connect the middle connector to it then tying up a 5 1/4" bay with an adapter needed to place it there. Why buy the adapter when your case should already have a 3 1/2" slot already there for it?
Unless you plan on going(eventually?) with a strictly SATA board and running Sata instead of ide type hard drives having the second drive onhand can be a big help at times especially if your primary needs a reformat at some time in the event of virus or OS change(upgrade to Vista -change to Linux). For now if the drive is still good you want to recovery what you can from it.
Unless you plan on going(eventually?) with a strictly SATA board and running Sata instead of ide type hard drives having the second drive onhand can be a big help at times especially if your primary needs a reformat at some time in the event of virus or OS change(upgrade to Vista -change to Linux). For now if the drive is still good you want to recovery what you can from it.