No dvd drive listed in "My Computer"
I installed a new round cable about a week ago, and im just now noticing my DVD drive wasnt listed in "My Computer" (Im uncertain if it is related to me switching to a single dual-device IDE cable from 2 IDE cables). Apparently I had Daemon Tools emulating 1 drive, so Ive been assuming that was the real drive ( just worked out that I havnt used my dvd drive in a week).
I got a cd yesterday with a Power Point Presentation on it, so I hit eject and put it in..... Nothing happened. Checked My computer and clicked on the dvd drive (the virtual one, but thought it was the real one at the time), then it said to put a disk in the drive. *Hmmm, maybe Daemon is messing it all up.* So I disable all emulated drives, and now there are no drives listed in My Computer
So I check bios, and DVDRW is the primary master, with the hard drive as primary slave..... . At the post screen, same thing: the DVDRW is primary master and the hard drive is primary slave. I can get to windows fine. Everything else seems to work fine.
So...... any ideas?
Edit:\\ Whats ironic is I dont have a Floppy Drive.
I got a cd yesterday with a Power Point Presentation on it, so I hit eject and put it in..... Nothing happened. Checked My computer and clicked on the dvd drive (the virtual one, but thought it was the real one at the time), then it said to put a disk in the drive. *Hmmm, maybe Daemon is messing it all up.* So I disable all emulated drives, and now there are no drives listed in My Computer
So I check bios, and DVDRW is the primary master, with the hard drive as primary slave..... . At the post screen, same thing: the DVDRW is primary master and the hard drive is primary slave. I can get to windows fine. Everything else seems to work fine.
So...... any ideas?
Edit:\\ Whats ironic is I dont have a Floppy Drive.
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Do you still have the old cable that you could try out?
I will fiddle with it a bit and try out my old cables.
At the moment I cannot even get the the drive to eject. Kinda odd that I could yesterday
~dodo
I have the dvd drive set to cable select. The new dual-device round cable is in IDE1, and only connected to the hardrive (slave on the cable). One of the old dual-device cables is in IDE2 and only connected to the DVD drive(Primary on cable). I boot up, and after a long start up I get a message that tells me that my new hardware has been successfully installed, but I need to restart for it to work. I restart and I now have a DVD drive listed in My Computer.... but I also have an ugly-a** ribbon cable. Im gonna mess with it a bit more and see where this all takes me.
~dodo
Now dodo, how did you come up with that? Just a guess? It works but I dont know why .
~dodo
Thanks again.