Tried installing new CD drive, now both of them don't work

[Manvin Chawla]

I installed a new Cd-RW/DVD-ROM drive into my Windows XP
computer. I already had a CD-RW drive installed in my
computer. I thought the problem was that I had too many
IDE things plugged in (two hard drives, two cd drives,
and one floppy) so I disconectted the floppy drive but it
still doesn't seem to be working. It detects the new CD
drive but not the old one, and when I put a CD in the old
one nothing happens. If I put something in the new one
the loading thingy comes up but my computer freezes and
the only way to stop it is to eject the cd. Please help.

-Thanks
Manvin

[Jonathan Fischer [MSFT]]

It's likely that both drives are configured as "masters". If you look on
the back of the drives there will be a set of jumpers labelled "Master",
"Slave", and "Cable Select". What you want to do is set up one of the
drives as the slave.

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Microsoft
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"Manvin Chawla" > wrote in message
...
> I installed a new Cd-RW/DVD-ROM drive into my Windows XP
> computer. I already had a CD-RW drive installed in my
> computer. I thought the problem was that I had too many
> IDE things plugged in (two hard drives, two cd drives,
> and one floppy) so I disconectted the floppy drive but it
> still doesn't seem to be working. It detects the new CD
> drive but not the old one, and when I put a CD in the old
> one nothing happens. If I put something in the new one
> the loading thingy comes up but my computer freezes and
> the only way to stop it is to eject the cd. Please help.
>
> -Thanks
> Manvin