CD Burner installation

seifer699 · Sep 12, 2006

Hello,

I have recently installed a cd-r/rw burner. I connected everything well to my judgement. The problem is when i start windows it says it detects my old optical drive (which has been working perfectly till now), then detects my new burner. When i go to My computer, "cd burner" will quickly appear, the "dvd drive" will quickly appear then after a while nothing will appear. I heard it has to do with somthing about the "master and slave" settings maybe? Im not very familiar about those.

So basically i cannot access both drives, and they both appear and then disapear for a while then both dissapear.

Can somone help me with this problem please?

TimW · Sep 12, 2006

The hard drive are on the master or primary IDE cable ...the cd/dvd drives should be on the secondary IDE cable ...the one you want as master should have the jumpers set as such ( should be a diagram on the cd-rive case showing the settings - or on the manufacturers web site) ...and be on the last connection on the cable ...the other drive should be jumpered as slave and on the middle connection on the ide cable.

yank101 · Sep 12, 2006

did you take out and replace the new drive with the old one , or have you added the new drive to the pc?
i upgraded to a cd dvd drive and just poled the old cd drive out, if your dont doing alot of cd coping, 'i beleave' theres no sence in having the 2 drives, you can still copy cd's but it just has to save the copy to your hard drive first.
how ever there is a pin in the back of the cd/r drive someone on the forum can tell you how it set it. good luck to ya , youll be up and running in no time.

yank101 · Sep 12, 2006

me and TimW posted at the same time that bugger, also i should have a diogram on the cd/r's bottem side that with show you how to pull the pin out and put it in as slave

seifer699 · Sep 12, 2006

Ok, i think im understanding now. I bought the burner from a trusted friend, so unfortunately there are no instructions. He said the burner was already set to master. No i am not replacing, but adding a optical drive.

So basically you are saying i have to add the jumper for my old drive to the last place? And the new one to the middle?
A pic of any sort would help, since im a newb with these things =P

TimW · Sep 12, 2006

Turn off your PC, unplug it and remove the cover.( see below, Removing Cover ) Use an antistatic wrist strap to work inside your PC. You will find two IDE connectors, Primary and Secondary channels on your motherboard. In most PCs, the IDE hard disk connects to the primary channel and the IDE CD-ROM drive connects to the secondary channel, both via data cables. If this is the way your PC is setup, then you will need only to connect your new CD-RW drive to the same cable as used by your CD-ROM. If that cable has no extra connector on it, use the cable that came with the CD-RW drive to connect both drives to the secondary channel. Some PCs have both the hard drive and the CD-ROM drive connected to the Primary IDE channel. If that's the case in your PC, and you have no other devices on the secondary channel ( like an internal IDE Zip drive ), plan to disconnect the CD-ROM drive from the primary IDE channel and reconnect it to the secondary channel with your new CD-RW drive.

Select the externally accessible drive bay where you will mount your CD-RW drive. Most PCs have their CD-ROM drive mounted in the top externally accessible bay. In most cases, the new CD-RW will mount in the bay just below your CD-ROM depending on where your CD-RW drive must go, check that your data cables and power cables are long enough.

Set Jumpers, connect Cables and mount an Internal CD-RW drive:

Check your CD-RW drive and make sure its jumper is set to Master. If you plan on continuing to use your CD-ROM drive, set its jumper to Slave. You may have to remove and then replace the CD-ROM drive to do so. Slide your new CD-RW drive into its bay and screw in its mounting screws. Then connect its data. Make sure the cable's colored ( usually red; Pin 1 ) wire goes to the pin nearest the power connector ( some data cable connectors have a piece of protruding plastic to prevent connecting in the wrong direction ). Then connect the power cable to the CD-RW drive. Lastly, if your CD-RW drive came with an audio cable and your sound adapter has a free connector ( on the sound card or on the motherboard if your adapter is integrated ) for its end of the cable, attach one end of the audio cable to the connector and the other to the CD-RW drive. If the sound adapter has no free connector, then choose which device you want to use as audio player and attach the cable.

http://www.mysuperpc.com/build/pc_install_cdrom.shtml

seifer699 · Sep 12, 2006

Thx A Lot I Tried The Jumpdriver Thing And It Worked Thx =)

TimW · Sep 12, 2006

No prob .....don't be a stranger.

seifer699 · Sep 14, 2006

btw how do you make a cd autoplay when burning? For example im gonna burn my windows xp, would it automatically autorun? if not then how do i make it autorun like a store bough cd?

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