I have a DELL Dimension 4100 desktop tower. I replaced the CD-ROM drive with a new DVD drive. I used a 1X(IDE ATA to HDD/DVD/CDROM 100/133 SATA Converter Adapter K6P1) which works in my other computers. Even when I change the boot to read the DVD drive with the CD (for the drivers) in it, the system can't find it. I even tried the "look for new hardware" icon, the system still couldn't find the player. I've included the system sheet.That you are able to set it as a boot device seems to indicate to me it is being correctly identified during the initial BIOS Boot process. is this correct?

If so, I assume then that the problem is there is no drive letter appearing for the drive?

You can check Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) and see if the drive is appearing but was not assigned a drive letter (and assign one, of course).

Otherwise, Assuming for now that the adapter works, I would suggest that the Master/Slave configuration is incorrect. If I understand correctly based on the this is an adapter that adapts a SATA drive to be able to be used as an EIDE drive. In such a case the master/slave configuration would be on the adapter itself, typically via Jumper.

Hi Alan

If you check the IDE cable and it has a wire cut, it is for devices jumped for cable select. Your IDE to Sata adapter needs a straight thru cable no missing wires. So is CONFIGURED as a single drive or master.
Here is a web site which explains it better than i can http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ide-cable-select.html


On the boot screen, it shows the ATAPI CDROM for 1st boot. My DVD is an ASUS drive. On XP WINDOWS (my computer), it does not show the DVD.
I will check the Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) and the IDE cable for a wire cut. I found the hard drive in selected as "slave" instead of master.
So I need to find out how to put that back to the master. Thanks, BC_Programer and Lisa_maree.I found that when first starting up, the screen will sometimes show one or TWO of the other. The hard drive, or the DVD player or both. When one of them doesn't show, (the HD or DVD) they won't work. Is this the BIOS that is bad? There is an upgrade of the BIOS though DELL's web page. So do I need to download this and do an update? The diskmgmt.msc didn't do anything and the cable is in GREAT condition. I would DLoad and install the OakRom CD drivers and re=boot.