OT: lost my cd/dvd drives

[Ed Fletcher]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> After messing around in BIOS for a while I finally got my new SATA drive
> playing nicely with my old ATA drive - great! Now the system doesn't see
> my cd/r or dvd drives.
> 
> I'm asking here because I just don't know where to start. Both drives
> are on IDE2 and the ATA drive is on IDE 1. The SATA drive is plugged
> into an onboard SATA port.
> 
> I'd love some tips with this, even a coupla links would be fine, I just
> don't really know what to search for. Everything I've seen in BIOS which
> refers to IDE is as useful as Greek to me.
> 

I hate to tell you to look at your bios but it's where you should start.
 Check to see if the bios is showing both your cd and dvd drives.  They
should be listed separately.  If not, you likely have to set one as
master and one as slave.  Read this for more info:
http://www.pcguide.com/proc/config/ide.htm

You should also see them listed on the screen when you boot.

HTH,
Ed
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