Ok, so my old Sony Optiarc Sata dvdr+rw drive decided to take a crap on me. I went to my local Microcenter today and purchsed an LG GH22NS50 Dvd+rw dl, internal Sata drive. So I connect everthing up as usual, and power on the computer. Everything boots as normal, and the drive is detected on my post boot BIOS. So now we are in Windows XP sp3, and to my surprise, the drive does not show up in "my computer" Great. I go into "control panel" and proceed to bring up "device manager". The drive is listed, and the drivers are loaded for it. Even reports as "working correctly" Great. So I decide to reboot, and this time, boot into windows 7. Win7 loads up, and wow, the drive appears and works perfectly under Win7. I have made no changes to anything in XP. The only thing I did was pull the bad dvd drive, and replace it with a new one., Why is it that it does not detect properly, or work on XP, but it does on Win7? Am I going to have to redo my XP drive?
In the BIOS, you might look for an option like "Configure SATA as IDE" and see if it does anything. I had something similar creating XP on a separate HDD used for booting from the BBS screen.
Yeah I got it figured out. Not sure if this will make sense, but here's what happened. I had repaired my dual boot of Win 7 and Xp a while back. For some strange reason, it had the dvd drive tied to the Win7 boot, so when you looked at bus and target Id's, it all pointed to the win 7 installaion hdd. So to fix this, since I'm not sure how to do it in regedit, I simply just rolled back the system, and the system restore took care of pairing the device properly to the xp installation.
