Hi, A couple of weeks ago i attempted to install my first IDE Disc drive, as my old DVD-ROM drive (about 8 years old) was past its time. I bought a Sony DRU-800A Dual Layer DVD[+-]RW Drive. Firstly, i installed the drive into the Primary Slave IDE port on my computer. When i tried it out, it read and copied DVD+R discs fine, but when i bought a pack of DVD+RW discs, the drive would turn to a "CD Drive" in my computer, and when i clicked on it it would say that "D: is not accesible". Firstly, i upgraded the firmware to the latest version via Sony's website, but it did nothing. I thought that the problem may be to do with the fact that it was Primary Slave, as i have heard that WinXP can only support 1 DVD-RW drive. I then swapped my drives around, including the jumpers. I turned my PC on and now WinXP says the same "D: is not accessible" about DVD+R discs as well as DVD+RW discs. The drive can now and has always been able to read normal movie DVD's. I have looked on bootup and the screen says that the Sony drive is on Secondary master. I dont really want to re-locate my 2 HDD's and i have numerous programs including iTunes pointing to files on them. Whats going wrong. I am using: OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2. HDD: 1 x 80GB, 1 x 15GB. Thanks for any replies in advance!
First of all you should make absolutely sure that your hard drives are master and slave on your PRIMARY IDE channel and that your DVD and CD drives are master and slave on your Secondary IDE channel respectively. That means that you should jumper these drives accordingly. Please make sure these settings are correct. The fact that Windows XP Explorer 'labels' your DVD drive as "CDROM DRIVE" means nothing, so don't worry 'bout that. You don't have to change anything with your HDD's, just connect your SONY DVD burner properly to your secondary IDE channel (cable) and you should be fine. Good luck!
