Recently installed Dvd burner

[Grimbones]

Well, i just traded in my old liteon CD RW for a brand new DVD rw, and i cannot seem to get the drive to be recognized....

I go into my computer and nothing shows up...

I have another DVD drive that was a slave drive to my old liteon, and it will not work as a slave drive to this new driver, so i figure something must have happened here.

This is the drive... that i bought a week or so ago.

It is set as a master drive, and the other dvd drive is a slave...neither work, neither show up in my computer, or when i insert a disk....

I'm wondering if there is a device driver for this drive that i have not found... I went to the NEC website and typed in the product number and nothing came up so.....

Help!? lol, any words of wisdom would be much appreciated, thank you!

 

[Grimbones]

Anybody have any ideas...maybe the drive is defective or something? I literally just pulled out the old liteon and plugged the new one in, i figure there shouldnt' be a lot more to it than that?

 

[jackschmittusa]

Does the bios detect the drives on bootup?

And you don't need any additional drivers for it.

 

[Grimbones]

yeah, it detects the one drive, but it has some really weird name, like i've never seen a drive name look like that, it just looked like a bunch of nonsensical numbers, maybe something is up with the drive itself...i guess i can try making it a slave and seeing what happens....