My question isn't one related to an operating system, but more of a hardware question. I purchased an Acer 10x/8/32 CD Rewriter and installed it with my CD-ROM as the master drive and the Rewriter as the slave drive. I attempted the installation of the driver as well that came on a floppy. I have power to the CD-RW, but my computer only detects the cd-rom. It won't detect the cd-rw and I can't use it for anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Don't know is this will help but you might want to check what letters are assigned to what drives in the device manager. When I installed my second HD in my system which already consisted of a CD-ROM, CD-RW and one HD it messed everything up because it moved my drive letters all around and I lost the CD-RW drive till I did a little reworking of the letters and the Master/Slave settings on all four drives. One last note, a little advice from using Nero burning software. If you plan copying CD's, put the CD-ROM and CD-RW on different IDE cables (if you're using IDE drives obviously), Nero wouldn't let me copy till I put them on separte cables. All of this is from my own experience (and frustration.....lol), not from any technical manual.

your cd-writer has to be master and cd-rom is slave...then it should go...

Actually, many CDRW's need to be slaves, I believe your Acer is one of them. Sorry quikneasy, but it ain't that quick and easy. My suggestion is to be sure the the IDE Controller where this drive is connected, is not set to "None" in the BIOS. Make sure it is set to "Auto."

you can also set it to slave on the harddrive cable, and it will work from there or set the cd-rom as slave to harddrive and cd-rw as master on second ide. if you play with it long enough something should work.

You also have to go into your BIOS and make sure it is set right for for your machine to recognize the master and the slave. had this same problem with my HP CDRW and that was how I cleared it up. Rick