My FAMILY bought a refurbished computer from dell in 2004. We had a cd-burner from our old computer that I wanted to put in the new one so i tried to install it. It didn't work and I was leaving for school so I didn't really care. So i tried to fix it again when i got home and it doesn't even recognize that there's a drive there. Still i really DIDNT care because i wasnt usuing it. But now i'm buying and mp3 player and i want to put my cd's on the computer as well as install the program that comes with the player. So my question is: Why isn't the drive being recognized? How do i get it to be recognized?Have you placed all the cables correctly? And the jumper for master/slave?As a general rule, burners should be set as master on the secondary IDE channel.I connected it the same way I saw the regular drive connected so I'm not exactly SURE about the master/slave thing. Where can I find that?If only one CD is in use, connect it via it's own cable to the secondary IDE channel and set it's jumper to master:


There is a rather DETAILED thread on this on these very FORUMS somewhere. A search for "master" or "slave" from the last couple of months should find it.