my dvd drive is not detecting in windows, Please help?

dvdbunny · 6 Jan 2009 at 14:58

Hey Guys,

I had opened up my PC case today and moved my DVD drive to another bay. But it shouldn't matter which bay it's in. I used the same cables. Now I just placed a DVD into the tray and it ejects and closes but I noticed in 'my computer' It does not show my dvd drive anymore, how can I fix this?

dvdbunny · 6 Jan 2009 at 17:52

where do I find device manager?

It's an IDE

dvdbunny · 6 Jan 2009 at 22:05

I opened my case back up and have reconnected the cables, but it's still not working. I tried a different cable and nothing happens. It doesn't come up in device manager or in my computer. Whats wrong? please help

many thanks in advance

dvdbunny · 6 Jan 2009 at 22:22

RJC said:
Does it show in the BIOS, can you check it in another pc.

you mean on start up? For that I would need to press f8 during booting up right?

dvdbunny · 6 Jan 2009 at 22:39

Okay I pressed f8 on start up and got into the bios menu. It then said:

Primary Drive 0 Hard drive
Primary Drive 1 OFF
Secondary Drive 0 Unknown Device
Secondary Drive 1 Unknown Device

I only got a IDE DVD re-writer in the case and a IDE hard drive and floppy drive. Just the dvd re-writer does not detect in device manager not does it show up as an icon in my computer.

dvdbunny · 6 Jan 2009 at 23:04

please help guys???

dvdbunny · 7 Jan 2009 at 19:34

kylew said:
*cringe* at thread.

Some one who doesn't know what device manager is, shouldn't be moving things about in their PC. I think some one's working a bit backward here.

I know what device manager is but had forgotten where it was located but know now from a google search. Still anyways I have tried everything I can think of and the dvd drive doesn't show up in windows.