Both CD and DVD drive not recognized!

[Guest]

I need some serious help here people. I was trying to do some computer work
myself and messed things up a bit. I have a LiteOn DVD burner model # LDW451S
and also a LiteOn DVD drive model # XJ-HD166S. Anywho... I went ahead and
added another hard drive to my pc and have since removed it since it was
mislabelled and was a lot smaller than what I was looking for. When I removed
the 2nd hard drive out of my computer I lost both DVD drives. I am a little
familiar with pc's and went in and checked the BIOS. I do not show either
drive on BIOS or in Device Manager. I have also checked the jumpers and they
are also set properly. One slave one master. Both drives are also getting
power so I am pretty much stumped at this point and time. ANY HELP THAT YOU
CAN GIVE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

 

[nothere]

Hi
Did you check the ide connection to the mother board ? . Something like
that happen to me, turn out I pull the Ide connector lose while trying to
fit in the cable to the new drives.
My drives fail to show up in Bios as well, connection looks ok until I push
on it a bit...Be sure to power off before you try this.

 

[Guest]

Check the ribbon cable ie.. The data cable connections, may have wiggled lose
at the drive or on the mobo connector, make sure their snug..
Cheers
j;-j

 

[Guest]

Check the ribbon cable ie.. The data cable connections, may have wiggled lose
at the drive or on the mobo connector, make sure their snug..
Cheers
j;-j

Thanks for the info. I went ahead and just started completely over. Unhooked EVERYTHING did a series of uninstalls and reinstalled both drives along with checking BIOS. Everything is fine now. I just have 2 more problems I am trying to work through. If you can help that would be great.

1. Seems like it takes FOREVER for my computer to boot up. I sometimes have
to do a hard restart like 5 or 6 times before the computer comes up all the
way.

2. The tray on my DVD burner has me quite puzzled. When I hit "eject" it
opens the drive just fine but will not close it back. It also seems because
of this that the DVD burner drive which is my E: drive will not read. I am a
little hesitant about putting a DVD in there to burn in case it doesn't burn
it at all. I wanted to work through this problem first. Any suggestions????

Thanks for your quick reply

 

[Guest]

Check your CMOS battery too, while your in there, is it old..?
See link on using msconfig..
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310560
http://www.google.com/search?q=slow+bootup+in+XP
Check your startup tab in msconfig for junk entries..
You can use SCP to quickly stop the startup entries without affecting normal
startup mode in msconfig.. Check the entry at castlcops to verify it's not
needed or if it is safe to stop/remove..
http://www.castlecops.com/StartupList.html
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
Should keep you busy for a while, anyway..

Push the drawer in...
It may be broken, if the button on the drive doesn't do it, it's not an XP
issue, it' a drive issue..

XP doesn't burn DVD"s you'll need a third party app for that like Nero or
Roxio, etc..
j;-j