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dvd drive disaster
Name: Paul Fleming Date: July 7, 2003 at 04:58:57 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: Athlon 2000+
Comment:
Having just slaved my old hard drive to a new computer my dvd drive has disapered from sight, could this be because the hardrive now uses the drive letter previously assigned to the dvd? The dvd is cfonnected, has power etc etc, is there a simple fix for this?
I believe you didnt plug the hardrive in the right plug. Your motherboad has 2 types of IDE, one for CD Drives and the other for Hard drives. So if you pluged your HD to the IDE CD drive port then you'll have a problem somewhere.
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Response Number 2
Name: suatcini (by suat cini) Date: July 7, 2003 at 07:10:59 Pacific
Reply:
If you slaved your HDD to an IDE channel on the new PC, please check that the IDE channel in question should not have your DVD-ROM connected as slave. An IDE channel can take two IDE or ATAPI devices in which one device should be connected as Master and the other, as slave. You can adjust Master/Slave thru the jumpers at the back of the devices.
Ex: Primary IDE channel HDD (having your OS) Master DVD-ROM Slave
Secondary IDE channel CD-RW Master HDD (for backup) Slave
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Response Number 3
Name: Jeruvy Date: July 7, 2003 at 11:28:01 Pacific
Reply:
Marc, I'm having difficulty determining what logic you used to determine he plugged it in the wrong connector.
Can you see all the devices in the BIOS? If so, then post back, if not you will have to configure the hardware jumpers and cables properly to get BIOS to detect them all.
Let us know what your BIOS reports.
Sometimes placement can affect this, try moving drives around, I would put your main boot disk prim/master, and the second disk prim/slave, then dvd sec/master and the burner sec/slave.
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