I got a new case a few days ago. I put all my old stuff in my new case and got everything set up. Everything worked fine. So! Today I went to play a game and nothing. I opened "my computer" and neither my cd nor dvd drive show up. I went to my device manager and nothing there either. I checked all the cables and everything is hooked up right. It will open and close but when a disk is in it doesn’t read the disk or show anything on my computer. Any ideas?


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Windows XP Home Edition
Mach Speed Matrix P4M800
Intel Celeron 340 2.93Ghz
XFX GeForce FX 5200 128MB
Sabrent 6-CH 5.1
500W PSU
1.50GB RAM
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OH! Also I did system restore and it showed only my cd drive and when I went to put a disk in it, it disappeared :confused:

Are the drives detected in the Bios?

How are they physically installed? EG I have two drives, a Master and a slave on the Secondary Controller etc.

I have two drives, a Master and a Slave on the Secondary Controller. Both are hooked up the same way they always have been. I also switched the cable with an extra master/slave cable I had and still nothing. As far as them being detected in the Bios it looks like this:

How are the drives physically connected though?

How many drives do you have, which controller are they connected to, and are they in the correct Master/Slave heirachy etc?


Once I know that, I can compare it to the Bios setup that you posted to see if the problem is with Windows or elsewhere.

They where in fact not in the correct Master/Slave heirachy. I didn't realize that and honestly I read that and went ............. HELL. lol Sorry I totally feel stupid now but it works so YAY! God anyway yeah I switched em and they are working fine now.

Don't worry about it, we've all done it.

Glad it's sorted now. :)