I have a problem with my master and slave drive, (nexxtech DVD rom (master) (reader), samsung burner (slave), recently I changed my dvd rom drive becasue my old jvc lite on stopped working, after I changed it windows does not recognize either drive, its shows they are working, but when I open *my COMPUTER* and click on the drive *my computer* freezes, when i press eject on drive D both disc drives eject, so I assume their is something wrong with the set up, how could I reset the drives and make them go back to working properly without REINSTALLING windows.Try setting the burner as master...double check the jumper settings. It should be master or master with slave present. This drive should be hooked to the end of the ribbon cable.
Startup Windows and see if it's recognised.
If so power down and install the reader as slave. Hook it to the middle connector of the IDE cable.
If all this fails i would try a NEW IDE cable.
When re-installing only introduce one drive at a time...So Just switch the wires, and if not change the ide wire.
thx ill try it outIT WORKED THX MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you so much, I thought I had to reinstall windows, but not anymore, do u know what caused this?
It's easy for the BIOS to get confused when addind g new equipment...has little to do with Windows.
A good rule of thumb is to only change/add one component at a time and always re-boot for the changes to take effect...
Glad you are fixed up.