HELP PLEASE! My CD burner won't work.

road_kill_ · Post by **road_kill_** » July 26th, 2005, 11:16 pm

Hey all. My dad's friend gave me a new computer. Just a little bit better than the one I had. And I want to put the CD burner from my other computer into this new one... I do it all correctly but the computer does not start up with it in it...

So I run it in SAFE MODE and I went into My COmputer and there is no D Drive at all. So the computer hasen't even recognised that there is a disk drive in it. I try to 'add new hardware' but it still does not recognise it... I also have another OLD cd burner and I tried putting that in and exactly the same thing happenes - the computer does not start up and doesn't recognise the D Drive. Oh and I'm using Windows XP. Help would be much appreciated! As I am thinking about purchasing a DVD Burner.. So I want the DVD Burner to work!!

Thanks P.S. I'm not a big computer 'whizz'. lol.

Post by **ccb056** » July 27th, 2005, 1:46 am

put it on the secondary ide channel, alone, and set the jumpers for master also make sure the power is plugged in along with the ide cable