burner doesn't work after removing old one

[dfn]

Hi.
I had 2 burners installed on my machine, on the secondary ide. One was master, one was slave. The burner that was slave did not work. The burner that was master worked. I took out the burner that did not work (secondary/slave). Now, the remaining burner (secondary/master) does not work. It shows up in explorer/device manager, it says it is working properly, however, when I put a disc in it, and try to access the drive, it says "please insert a disc into drive G"
This burner worked just a few minutes ago... I find it highly unlikely that it crapped out during the 5 minutes it took me to remove the old one.

I went into bios and made sure that there was nothing loaded on secondary slave, and made sure this burner (sony dru-710a) was the one on secondary master.
Both of my hard drives still work OK.

What should I do next? Any advice is appreciated!

 

[cprince]

try different CDs. Also check the cable.

 

[dfn]

Seems weird. The CD does not work in this burner, but it works in another one (on older pc). That's why I thought it was the burner.
Another CD does not work in this one, but works in the other one. The rest of the CDs I tried work in both...kinda bizarre.

Thanks for your help. Guess I panicked for nothing.

 

[NoelS]

dfn,

Some burners (and HDDs) won't act as a master if the jumper is on Master and there is no slave attached. You could try moving the jumper to Cable Select or just remove the jumper all together. See if either way works.

Noel