Installing Cd-rom

[Guest]

This is my problem. I have my HD and a cd rom on IDE1 (HD primary- cd slave)I have a cd-rw and an extra HD on IDE2 (HD primary- cd-rw slave) But only the hard drive, both cd-roms show in explorer BUT only the cd-rw works. And the other HD doesent even show. The boot-up shows the 2 cdroms AND the 2 HD. Please help me out....getting VERY frustrated....bout to throw the comp out.

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[Guest]

Put the two harddrives on the same channel and the two roms on the other. Set one harddrive to master and one to slave (Caption Obvious reporting for duty). If this doesn't work repost and tell everyone what an ass I am. J/k.

pill128

Take your pill, and get some sleep.

 

[Guest]

Your partally right. Now, I decided to try just my HD's on IDE1. Windows finds it!! BUT....it thinks its a removable drive. In the properties I can change the drive letter, DMA, and turn Off removable drive. So I turned it off. When its On my mouse goes all funky and Quake 3 starts up without hitting the shortcut!!When its Off Windows doesent show it. Weird huh? Everything is what it should be. Is there a BIOS setting im missing? A Winblows setting? I have it on Auto Detect as well.

 

[Guest]

BTW.....your Half-Assed!

 

[Guest]

Thats wacked bro. I have no clue, have you thought of reformatting? Also, in the bios, does it accurately recognize the the drives (ie: size, tracks, platters...)? Removeable drive? Now that doesn't make any sense, maybe you were confused and installed a USB LS-120 as a harddrive!!! J/K you gotta love WINBLOWS.

pill128

Take your pill, and get some sleep.

 

[Guest]

lol....thought bout doing that....gotta back [-peep-] up first....oh well. Thanks for your help anyways