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

[Steve Henderson]

There are jumpers on the drive that define the role of
master and slave for each drive on the same IDE cable.
There is a key usually printed on each IDE device (your
CD drive in this case) that shows how to set them.
Verify that the devices are not set the same. One should
be configured as MASTER the other as SLAVE.

Your floppy drive is not IDE (probably).

Steve H.


>-----Original 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
>.
>