CD-burner added --> CD rom lost ?!

Hello everyone,
I installed a CD R/RW drive. everything worked fine until one day my normal CD rom drive was not recognized by win 95 anymore...it is just gonne. any try to find new hardware or so did not work.
The funny thing is, that my CD burning program does see the old drive but cannot read anything on it either.
How cann I get the drive back to work ?
Please help me

Thank you for any helpful advice.
Kritzoff.

 

Sounds like your ribon cable !!!

First -------when you added your cdr/w did you put it on the same IDE cable as the existing CDrom ? Second---if you did ---you needed to do a couple of things along with just pluging it in . I will assume for this conversation ---that your hard drive is set up as your primary master ---in your bios ( By default ) This leaves you with 2 choices from there ---1st ---your existing Cdrom is set a the Primary slave --done in the bios ---and with the jumpers on the back of the CDrom. And it is on the same cable as your hard drive -----or on a cable by itself , it should be set as the secondary master but most likely ---factory installed ---its on the same cable as your Hard drive which would make it the primary slave . Now ---in your bios ---you have a setting for a (Secondary , Master ---& Slave . This would be on the other grey ribon cable connected to your mother board . You need to put both the cdrom and the CDr/w on the same cable on the secodary IDE. Pick which one you want to be the 9 Master ) and which one you want to be the slave , by the jumper settings on the back of the devices !!! Most are labled . Then when you reboot ---go into your bios and set them up accordingly , to your preference . If you need more detail , post back and I'll help you set it up . I hope this will help you in your missing drive . Dusty

 

Hi,

Just a note.

When my husband & I installed our burners, we had to set the burner as the Master, with both of them on the same cable, for it to work right. Don't know if that helps or not.

Deloris.

 

Meaning ????

Does that mean that ---according to the jumpers on the Burner ---
it is set as the master ??? And if so ---is the jumper on the cdrom set to slave ??? Also ---if that ( is in fact ) the case ---that part is good . Them check your bios to see if you have the secondary , master , and slave set up . Remember --in your bios ---your
( Primary Master ) needs to be your hard drive . And You need to set up your burner as your ( Secondary Master ) and your cdrom , as your ( Secondary Slave ) . then reboot . But note that the jumpers must be set right for the bios to see them and be able to access them ---otherwise you can confuse it and have intermitent problems --or just plain problems with the devices !!! If you need more ---just get back with me . Dusty

 

Not sure who!

Dussmann,

I am not sure who you were talking to in your last post, me or the one that originated the post, but if you were talking to me, then, yes the Burner is on the same IDE cable with the regular CD ROM. The burner is set as the Master according to the jumper on the back of the burner & the regular CD ROM as the slave according to the jumper on the back of it. That's all we had to do & everything works fine. I realize of course that it may not turn out that way for everyone. Naturally, C drive is the Primary Master.

That's all I was trying to say to possibly shed some light on kritzoff's posted question.

Deloris

 

Sorry !!!

I missed the posted name !!!! I guess I thought I was talking to Kritzoff on that last post . And yesy ---some people's puters are already set up in the bios to auto detect on both IDE's , but some aren't , and thats where doing something simple like adding a burner can get confusing !!!!

 

I maybe don't know what I am talking about here, but if kritzoff's arrangement worked OK for awhile & then his regular ROM disappeared, then it seems that something in Windows jumped it's trolly. That's been known to happen. And to happen often.

Any ideas on that possibility Dussmann? I wouldn't have a clue as to what caused his ROM to disappear. Never had it to happen to me, and hope I don't.

We had our computers generically made, which makes it easier to replace parts & install hardware.

Deloris.

 

Sounds like the ribon cable

almost every time I have had a drive go hiding on me --its been a cable connection loose, but there are other senarios that can apply ( Ie. software that runs them , with settings changed after the fact . But I'm saying its a cable -------the burner sees it but can't read it , but windows doesn't see it . At least thats the way I'm understanding it . If there on the same cable ---communication is short ---but when windows and the bios get involved ---the cable goes a bit further. It could be any # of things tho . I'm just trying to establish a basis for the things that are suppost to be a constant in this equasion