Windows not recognizing my DVD-RW

[Boztech]

I recently rebuilt my system with a new case and motherboard.

System POSTs and runs fine..

I installed XP SP2 via CD using my DVD-RW drive, but now that I have Windows installed, the drive is not recognized. It does not show up under My Computer, Disk Management, or Device Manager.

The lovely part is BIOS recognizes it just fine, in fact it works fine for bootable CDs such as Linux Live CDs and a bootable memtest86 CD that I have, but as soon as Windows starts, it's like the drive shuts down.. the door won't even open once I'm at the desktop.

 

[PhreakyMike]

try scanning for new hardware...
Also, don't some motherboards use sata drives in IDE channels? So for the 2 satas secondary master and slave are not used? Im not 100% sure, but some have different sata settings.... Try changing it from master/slave and vice versa and maybe change to primary/secondary.

EDIT: I also had the same probelm with LITE on Drive... I returned it and got an LG and it worked fine.

 

[JohnAn2112]

Do you have a Lite-On drive? That happened to me with an older 8x DVDRW drive.

 

[Boztech]

It's a Nu-Tech DDW-082 8x drive. Been running great for over a year.

 

[ValuedCustomer]

Try disconnecting the drive and booting up w/out it. Then shut down, reconnect the drive and boot up again.. maybe the second time will be the charm?

 

[Boztech]

Tried that already.. no dice.

Here's the damned-est thing.. I swapped it with an old DVD drive I had, and that works fine... now when I hook it back up to my DVD-RW Windows will not boot. It gets to the end of the loading screen then the monitor just goes black..

😕

EDIT: This system is using a new PSU, new RAM that passes memtest 100%, and a HDD that passes diagnostics as well. I just went thru testing all those parts before I bought a new motherboard.