optical drive not detected in windows, but detected in BIOS

[Penguinus]

I just tried to install a plug'n'play no-name-brand DVD-ROM drive as a slave to my DVD+-RW drive on my primary IDE cable (my mobo is epox 8kda3j). The BIOS and CMOS detect the drive upon boot as my channel zero slave however I cannot get windows to detect or install the drive for the life of me.

Any suggestions?

thanks

 

[Siddhartha]

Have you partitioned and formatted the hard drive yet?

 

[Penguinus]

??
HDD is partitioned and formatted from when i originally put together the system. DVD drive is a
"superb" if it matters...

 

[powerMarkymark]

Did the drive come with a driver CD?

If not, go the manufacturers website to download drivers.

 

[ComatoseDelirium]

if you only have 2 things attached to the ide cables make one primary master and one secondary master

 

[ZL1]

wait your subject says hard drive not detected, but by your post I understand that the new dvd is not
which one ?


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[dunkster]

I had a similar problem - couldnt install two optical drives as master/slave on IDE2.

Problem fixed by rolling back the IDE/ATAPI controller from Nvidia to standard Windows IDE/ATAPI controller. My problem was with the Nvidia IDE/ATAPI controller from the Nvidia 5.10 driver set.

Hope this helps!

 

[Tbirdkid]

the dvdr drive is probably not dealing with being the slave very well. I would change it over to being on the secondary ide slot and use it as the primary on that. Then use the hard drive as the primary on the primary ide.

 

[ZL1]

Originally posted by: Tbirdkid
the dvdr drive is probably not dealing with being the slave very well. I would change it over to being on the secondary ide slot and use it as the primary on that. Then use the hard drive as the primary on the primary ide.

the dvdr is master, he put the dvd as slave
but yes Id also say try playing around, try running the dvd alone on the secondary ide just to see if it helps



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[Penguinus]

crap sorry DVD... im gonna try hooking it up to a new IDE cable, gotta go scrounge one up somewhere... thanks for the input