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asus a8v deluxe does not detect sole dvd-rw drive

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libs0n

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Here's a clone of my software forum post:

I'm installing windows on a friend's comp but have run into a snag. His computer's motherboard, an asus a8v deluxe, does not detect his lone DVD-RW drive, so I cannot put it ahead of the IDE hard drive in the boot order. I'm currently downloading the motherboard manual, and will consult to see if this can be done, any tips would be appreciated.

That brang me to the idea of installing windows from a secondary partition; I having previously split his hard drive in two beforehand. But in googling, it seems you need a floppy to get to boot to the command prompt rather than windows, and his is one of those newfangled ones without a floppy disk. Anyway around this?

Time is of the essence, any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks.

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My friend is being a pansy, and won't let me take out his hard drive to insert into another comp to use it's cd-rom drive. That leaves me with figuring out how to get his asus to detect the DVD drive. Through the looking glass, it seems that the dvd drive is installed on a separate IDE cable. I have no clue why the motherboard won't detect it in the bios, as it works perfectly fine in windows. Any help appreciated.
 
What exactly do you mean, as there is no floppy drive. The drive, a lite-on sohw-16935, works fine in windows, running cds, transferring files and whatnot, so I'm pretty sure the cable is connected fine. However, my friend is being an ass, and I can't open the case to check. Could the master/slave connector not be set right, and that's why it won't detect? I'll try running windows in safe mode with the command promt, and running the winnt.exe file from the i386 folder I copied onto the second partition, and see where that gets me.
 
thanks guys, but when I went back into the bios a second time, it had autodetected the DVD drive, so problem solved. thanks for your help anyways.
 
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