Re: DVD Drive disappeared

From: Rock (rock_at_comcast.nospam.net)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:30:15 -0700

Andrew Chalk wrote:

> I just added a hard disk to my PC and the DVD drive disappeared from
> Windows, although not from the BIOS.
>
> I had
>
> IDE1
> -----
> Master: Hard Disk
> Slave: Hard Disk
>
> IDE2
> ------
> Master: DVD drive
>
> and all was fine.
>
> I changed IDE2 to:
> Master: DVD drive
> Slave: New hard disk.
>
> The hard disk appears as drive E: under XP, but the DVD drive has
> disappeared.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what caused this and how to fix it?
>
> Many thanks
>
>

In general you shouldn't put a hard drive as slave on a secondary
channel with an optical drive as Master.

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