Ok, I purchased an internal DVD Re-writer today, got home and unpacked it all. The writer itself was there, the IDE cable (I presume thats the wide white cable?), and the sound lead. So I took the case of my computer off and proceeded to fit the writer into the spare drive bay underneath my CDROM drive. However, the IDE cable in the back of my CDROM leads directly into the motherboard and theres no black slot that i can connect up to my writer. So I took the new IDE cable which has 3 black long pin slots and replaced the the CDROM one, I connected it up from motherboard (where id taken the other one from) and back to the CDROM drive, then the spare black slot I attached to the back of my new writer, plugged the power cable into the back of the writer and then set computer back up and booted up, however windows failed to recognise a boot drive, I didnt know why this was? I thought perhaps it was something to do with the jumpers? but im not confident in this area. The CDROM doesnt appear to have the jumper set to anything none of the pins are covered at all. How can i get up and running please?
make sure the cables are seated properly in the drive the dvd drive should be the master drive and the cd rom the slave check the pins on the drives new drives allow you to set the drive to either master or slave or cable select you need a jumper on the cdrom or the computer will not see the drive
Alrighty, On the motherboard you have a Primary and a Secondary IDE Port. They should be labeled. ** Each port can connect two devices a master and a slave** So the primary port should go to your hard drive. The jumper on the hard drive should read master. The secondary should go to your cd-rom and your burner, now the burner and cd-rom need to be set opposite of each other. Meaning that one is the master and the other is the slave. Set the jumpers on both drives. You should be up and running at this point. Let us know if you have any other problems.
