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Detecting Cd-Writer

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Grunty, 2003/04/01.

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  1. 2003/04/01
    Grunty

    Grunty Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have installed XP pro on a machine that previously dual booted between 98 and 2000.

    The motherboard is a soltek-75drv5

    There are two cd drives attached to the secondary ide slot, one DVD set as master and a "liteon" cd writer set as slave. BIOS detects both drives successfully.

    XP will not detect the Cd Writer unless I unplug the dvd. Am I missing some aspect of XP that does this? I have not installed any cd writing software or SP1a yet, it is just a bare XP install with m/b and graphics card drivers.

    I have also tried using different types of IDE cable

    There are no clues on the m/b or cd writer websites and this is my first attempt at XP.

    Any Ideas?

    Thanks
     
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    PeteC

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    Suggest you try making the CD writer the master and the DVD the slave. I recall a previous thread in which InCd would only work with the CD as the master - this may be totally irrelevant, but easy to try.
     
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  4. 2003/04/02
    Grunty

    Grunty Inactive Thread Starter

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    Thanks for youir reply. Whatever combination od MS/SL/CS I tried the writer would not be recognised.

    As soon as I added SP1a, problem solved. I have no idea why this should happen, but at least it all works now.

    Thanks
     
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