not reading DVD drive

[deankenny]

MY bios shows and reads i have the dvd drive, and also on startup it reads it but its not in windows, not in my computer or on device manager i cant understand why not, any1 know why?

 

[StrangleHold]

you have the jumpers set right-master-slave

 

[pcmagic]

Yeah check your jumpers

 

[deankenny]

yep jumper is in right position, was on 3rd one in but now put it on master still nothing

 

[Viking]

I will assume that you have xp AND that you have the dvd on your secondary ide ? You may want to DL tweak ui , a free tool. If you have xp make sure you get the tweak ui for xp. Drives can be hidden and tweak ui will show you hidden drives. I seariously think that is not the case, i think it is something else, you should check first to make sure. You may also want to try safe mode and see if the drive appears.

 

[deankenny]

nope still doesnt appear

 

[planes891]

look around, u can get a new one for about 20$

 

[brent12223]

I don't know... I had a similar problem, but it was the jumpers...

My HDD is master and my cd and DVD drives are both set to cable selection (CSEL)... worked for me... Don't know why i don't have them as slaves, but oh well..