Need a new cd/dvd-rom drive, not sure what to get: Update, new one won't work.

[ZMan]

well I got my new drive in and hooked up, which took me a few trips to a few different stores to finally find a cable for it. I can't seem to get it to work! I went into BIOS like Allan suggested, the SATA ports were already enabled. The old IDE drive wasn't on the same circuit as the harddrives, so no worries about resetting the master/slave.

The problem I'm having is the thing just won't read any discs. I put the discs in, and it runs and spins the disc, but nothing happens.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Loud Ranger]

well I got my new drive in and hooked up, which took me a few trips to a few different stores to finally find a cable for it. I can't seem to get it to work! I went into BIOS like Allan suggested, the SATA ports were already enabled. The old IDE drive wasn't on the same circuit as the harddrives, so no worries about resetting the master/slave.

The problem I'm having is the thing just won't read any discs. I put the discs in, and it runs and spins the disc, but nothing happens.

Thanks in advance.

you plugged in both power and data connectors right?

 

[mjonesjr]

You may have to disable the IDE cable. Majority of motherboards will default to look for an IDE device when enabled and simply not recognize the SATA device.

If you right click on "Computer" from the Start Menu, click on "Manage", then click on "Disk Management" on the left pane. In the right pane lower does the CD-ROM drive show up (like the picture below)?

 

[ZMan]

you plugged in both power and data connectors right?

yes

You may have to disable the IDE cable. Majority of motherboards will default to look for an IDE device when enabled and simply not recognize the SATA device.

If you right click on "Computer" from the Start Menu, click on "Manage", then click on "Disk Management" on the left pane. In the right pane lower does the CD-ROM drive show up (like the picture below)?

I can't do that? I'm running XP, I doubt you are. But, when I go into my computer its not showing my drive. I talked to some people and apparently I can't use a DVD drive in the SATA ports on my motherboard, so I bought a IDE to Sata adapter and see if that works.

 

[mjonesjr]

I can't do that? I'm running XP, I doubt you are. But, when I go into my computer its not showing my drive.

No I am not, but that has been in Windows since Windows 9. You can still do it the exact same way on XP.

Let us know if the SATA to IDE works out.

 

[ZMan]

i'll keep looking around until my adapter gets here, I also have a friend coming over tomorrow to check it out.

I found the computer management, unfortunately the only thing its detecting is my USB stick.

 

[mjonesjr]

Is it not even showing your current hard drive either?

 

[ZMan]

ya its showing my hard drive.