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DVD Drive install problem

  • 02-08-2005 7:46pm
    #1
    DamienH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭


    Hey, I just got a dvd writer from komplett.ie today so I said i'd take a crack off installing it. I had 2 drives ( one dvd and one cdr ) so I took out the cdr drive and replaced it with new drive . I set the jumpers on the new drive to slave becuase that is what they were set as on the old drive ( cdr ). So when I start the computer I see the lights on both the drives lighting but when I go into My Computer there are no cd-drives at all... dvd or dvd/r. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? Thanks


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    check system properties in Control Panel and see if theres any conflicts there.


  • #3
    beller b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭beller b


    Go to device manager control panel/performance & maintenance/system & see if its there, if not right click on a blank space & scan for hardware changes... If its still not seen check ide cables


  • #4
    CyberGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,558 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    got the NEC ND3540A today from Komplett too, had the same problem, just set jumpers to Cable select, works ;)


  • #5
    DamienH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭DamienH


    ok gonna try that... anyone know why that happens?


  • #6
    DamienH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭DamienH


    ok tried that still the same. It's not showing either of the disc drives in device manager either. It's this drive


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  • #7
    CyberGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,558 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    check one at a time, with both ide connectors, one drive with both ide connectors and then the other,

    also is cable selection enabled in BIOS?

    my problem was probably because, I set the jumpers wrong, NEC drives don't have a drawing of which jumper setting is which on them, or maybe I didn't them, well I didn't bother too much, I knew my old NEC drive was set to cable select so I just set the new one to those jumpers too.


  • #8
    DamienH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭DamienH


    Ok i tried connecting the drives one at a time to my computer. When i connected my original one everything was fine. But when I connected the new one ( dvdr ) I got this error
    "A problem has been detected and windows has shut down to prevent damage UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME "
    Now hwne I restart my computer it loads and then asks to insert a boot disk. I am going to re-install windows and try again but does anyone have any other ideas what I could do??


  • #9
    CyberGhost
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    ooh geez, that might be your hard drive problem, I maybe wrong, but I think that your new cdrom didn't install cause, your hard drive is damanged, and windows couldn't find/install drivers for it.

    do you have another computer to check it(CDRom) on?

    I hope I'm wrong but here's what I found
    http://www.createblog.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t92530.html

    maybe this will help but your ide connectors were fine right?
    http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-24997-Unbootable-of-Windows-XP.html


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