DVD Drive Not Working

[VFR_KID]

Sorry i have this in Optical whre it belongs but, it is stale as cheese in there, Can anyone help

Just managed to get a mates computer to work on, and the IDE port on the mobo is shot to ****, put in a sata port card so it has sata slots and can run one of my DVD drives on it, however, it shows in My documents and in hardware all th rest of it, but always comes up with insert disk into drive .....

I have tried it on my own system and its hunky dory,

Any idea, drivers are all apparently ok too.

 

[cybergeek]

I've had this before, I had to replace the drive for it to work.

 

[VFR_KID]

I've had this before, I had to replace the drive for it to work.

But in theory it shouldnt work on my System?

Also would it work if i was to run the IDE Cable thats going to the hard drive to the CD player aswell or would it have to be a seperate cable?