Music/dvd play normally on Rom drive[master] but faster on recordable drive, [slave]. HDD indicator light on constantly, no flicker even during and after booting.
127758
Yeah, either move the Samsung to the same IDE channel that your hard drive is attached to, or make it the master, and the ROM drive the slave, on the channel they're on now.
621462
Sounds good, but I would make a suggestion...\n\nGet 2 of the HDD's and configure it in a RAID 0 for better read/write speeds.  Or get at least 2 more and configure it into a RAID 0+1 that would give you the speed benefit and provide data protection, too.\n\nMy system speeded up tremendously when I did that.  It once took about an 1.5 hours to copy a DVD movie.  After I configured my system with a RAID 0, the time was reduced to about 25 minutes.\n\nJust a thought.....
407915
WELL, IF YOU KNOW ENOUGH TO INSTALL A DRIVE THEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ENOUGH TO FOLLOW THESES INSTRUCTIONS. FIRST CHECK THE CABLES. THIS YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE. BUT THERE COULD STILL BE PROBLEMS HERE. MAKE SURE THE IDE CABLE IS PLUGGED ALL THE WAY IN, AND SEATED FIRMLY.  THE POWER CABLE IS IN OR YOU WOULDN'T GET ACTION ON THE CD LIGHT. BUT ANOTHER IMPORTANT STEP HERE IS TO CHECK THE JUMPER SETTING ON THE DRIVE. IT NEEDS TO BE SET TO EITHER "MASTER"-IF IT'S THE ONLY DRIVE ON THE IDE CABLE. OR "SLAVE" IF THERE ARE 2 DRIVES ON THE ONE IDE CABLE. BUT HERE AGAIN IT IS IMPORTANT TO CHECK THAT IF THE DRIVE IS A SLAVE, IT HAS TO BE PLUGGED IN TO THE PLUG ON THE IDE CABLE THAT IS BETWEEN THE TWO ENDS. THIS IS THE "SLAVE" PHYSICAL POSITION ON THE IDE CABLE. IF IT IS ON THE END OF THE CABLE AND SET TO SLAVE YOU WILL HAVE PROBLEMS. NOW, THE OTHER POSITION FOR THE JUMPER IS "CS" OR "CSEL" OR "CABLE SELECT". THEY ALL MEAN THE SAME THING, CABLE SELECT. WHAT THIS DOES IS ALLOWS THE COMPUTER TO SEE THE DRIVES AND DEPENDING ON WHERE THE DRIVE IS PLUGGED IN ON THE IDE CABLE, IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY KNOW WHICH IS MASTER AND WHICH IS SLAVE. BUT BOTH DRIVES HAVE TO HAVE THEIR JUMPERS SET TO CSEL IN ORDER FOR IT TO DO THIS. IF THIS DOESN'T FIX THE PROBLEM, GO ON TO THE NEXT STEP--- GO INTO THE DEVICE MANAGER OF WINDOWS. TO GET THERE CLICK: START:CONTROL PANEL: SYSTEM: HARDWARE(TAB): DEVICE MANAGER. IN THE DEVICE MANAGER CLICK THE "+" NEXT TO DVD/CD-ROM DRIVES. THIS WILL REVEAL ALL THE OPTICAL DRIVES YOUR COMPUTER RECOGNIZES. IF THE NEW DRIVE IS NOT LISTED HERE, YOUR COMPUTER ISN'T SEEING IT. SO NOW YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO CONTROL PANEL, AND CLICK "ADD NEW HARDWARE". LET WINDOWS SEARCH FOR THE NEW DRIVE. IF IT FINDS IT THEN LET IT INSTALL IT. IF IT DOESN'T THEN YOU'LL HAVE TO GO INTO YOUR BIOS. TO DO THIS, RESTART YOUR COMPUTER AND DURING THE START-UP IT WILL EITHER GIVE YOU A SPLASH LOGO OF THE MANUFACTURER OR IT WILL GIVE A BIOS SCREEN. THE BIOS SCREEN AND POSSIBLY THE SPLASH SCREEN SHOULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE " F2 FOR SET-UP" OR "DEL>SETUP". WHATEVER BUTTON YOU NEED TO PUSH TO ENTER SET-UP. THIS IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE BIOS BY PEOPLE LIKE ME. ANYWAY, IF IT DOESN'T GIVE YOU AN OPTION, AND JUST A LOGO APPEARS SUCH AS COMPAQ, HP, OR GATEWAY, THEN YOU NEED TO PRESS THE ESC KEY OR TAB KEY DURING STARTUP TO GET IT TO SHOW YOU THE BIOS SCREEN AND THERE IT WILL TELL YOU WHICH KEY TO PRESS TO GET INTO SETUP. ON SOME COMPAQ MODELS YOU HAVE TO PRESS THE ESC KEY 3 TIMES REALLY FAST AND THEN PRESS F10. BUT EACH MANUFACTURER WILL USUALLY BE DIFFERENT. DEL IS THE MOST COMMON BUTTON, THAT IS THE DELETE KEY. ONCE YOU GET INTO THE BIOS MENU THE FIRST PAGE SHOULD ALLOW YOU TO LOOK AT YOUR DRIVE CONFIGURATION. AND/ OR AUTO-DETECT YOUR DRIVES. SELECT THE DRIVE  (IF BIOS SEES IT) AND LET THE BIOS AUTO-DETECT IT. IF YOU DON'T EVEN SEE YOUR DRIVE, THEN IT IS A PROBLEM WITH THE PHYSICAL CONNECTION. EITHER THE POWER PLUG THAT POWERS THE DRIVE IS DEFECTIVE OUT OF YOUR POWER SUPPLY UNIT(PSU) AND THE OTHERS WORK(RARE, BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE) OR THE IDE CABLE ITSELF IS DEFECTIVE IN THE PORTION BEING USED FOR THE DRIVE, OR FINALLY THE DRIVE ITSELF IS DEFECTIVE. ONE LAST THING , YOU CAN ONLY HAVE 4 DEVICES CONNECTED TO THE IDE'S. ALSO IF YOUR LOOKING AT THE DEVICE MANAGER AND THE DRIVE SHOWS UP, BUT HAS AN EXCLAMATION POINT BY IT, THAT MEANS THERE MAY BE A CONFLICT WITH ANOTHER DEVICE USING THE SAME IRQ(INTERRUPT REQUEST). IF IT'S A QUESTION MARK THAT MEANS THE DRIVER ISN'T INSTALLED. JUST RELOAD THE DRIVER FROM THE CD THAT CAME WITH THE DRIVE, OR GO TO THE MANUFACTURERS WEB SITE AND DOWNLOAD IT. IF YOU NEED ANYMORE HELP JUST EMAIL ME, BECAUSE I'M IN IRAQ RIGHT NOW. joe_mccn@yahoo.com. ALSO YOU SAY THE DRIVE WAS WORKING AND WAS RECOGNIZED BY YOUR COMPUTER AND THEN QUIT WORKING. ONE THING I FOUND MAKES A COMPUTER DO THAT KIND OF FUNNY STUFF, IS D
401460
Just check in case u have DVD burner. You may same some money in buying external hard disk by writing the data on DVDs.
222269
could be a bad cable or jumper settings also - \n\nswap the drives on the IDE cable - I assume you want the reader as the master and the burner as the slave\n\nor get a new DVD reader for about $20 - check the websites
549009
Reinstall your drivers go to start button, then click run and write devmgmt.msc in text box and then click Ok now check your dvd drive if it has any problems or if it even shows up if not the plug inside is probably loose.
44321
There may be something up with the laser on your DVD drive, which would suggest a hardware fault perhaps.  Im not too sure about software stuff but there may be settings that are causing it to stop prematurely. Check that all your DVDs are clean and that the bay itself is fee from dust etc...
446972
Ok ever think the hard drive might be bad? Maybe the cd-rom is messed up.Also legitimate copies of windows are suggested and burnt cd's are frowned upon.However that being said id look into the hard drive being damaged. Sounds to me like the boot sector of the disk may be damaged.
438333
it doesn't do anything at all? Like no errors or anything like that? What program are you using to burn? All of them I've seen will say something like that there isn't burnable media in the drive or no drive selected or something that will tell you what's wrong. If you're using windows media player or windows itself to burn, try using Nero or EasyCD Creater.
418067
Not only is it a separate slave drive or just a partition on the same disk but, have any of the letters for your other drives changed? We kinda need this info in order to be able to give you the PROPER instructions to fix your problem.\n\nHowever, by reading your question, carefully, I'm wondering if your cd drive was being called "D" drive. If it that's the case and it continues not to read cds you put in it, you may have to take your puter into the shop and have the connections on the hardware checked as well as the reader on the cd-rom drive itself.
473821
Did you connect the data cable?\nDid you set the jumpers correctly?\nIs the DVD drive enabled in the system bios?
251299
some home-burned disks do not play well in certean players. no clue why
444080
To to My Computer, right click, go to Hardware, Device Manager and see if you really have a DVD/CD ROM drive.  My guess is you only have a CD drive, which will neither play nor burn DVDs.\n-MM
456328
u have to format the hdd.. if no go, u will have to debug the hdd... u can get the debugging instructions from the internet..\n\nbut first try with a diff cd., maybe the cd has issues.. otherwise, the problem is with the hdd..
633328
Look at the front of your drive and make sure you have a DVD burner. You might only have a CD burner. It will tell you on the front door of the drive.
315052
You probably had it set to emulate/test mode.  In that mode, it doesn't really burn the disc.  Check the settings and look for something like that.
333358
I'm sorry to tell you but I think it's dead. The click of doom is never a good sign and if there is fire involved? Hell, you're lucky the damned thing even turned on. You need to get a new hard drive man.