installing new dvd drive.please help.

guys my old dvd drive went bad.therefore i installed a new one.

i just removed the old one and put the new one on the rack.

but it shows 'error loading operating system the windows dosent boot'

what is the apprpriate way to install it.please help.

i have ide drive

windows xp sp3.

quan chi said:
guys my old dvd drive went bad.therefore i installed a new one.

i just removed the old one and put the new one on the rack.

but it shows 'error loading operating system the windows dosent boot'

what is the apprpriate way to install it.please help.

i have ide drive

windows xp sp3.

Told you not to get an IDE drive. Anyway, change the jumper setting on the Writer.

Your OS is trying to BOOT from the Optical drive. Try to get into the BIOS as soon as you start the system, set the 'first boot device' to the HDD which has the OS on it. Save the BIOS, and exit.

Your hardware installation should be fine, it is not confusing installing an optical drive.

i dont know how to do that jumper settings please give me step by step instructions.

That vendor from where i got it only has lg ide.and sata for other brands.(i even dont know how to install sata.) well i will explain all later but now please guide me.

^^
Did you check the BIOS for first boot device..?

^^yes hdd is selected but still it dosent boot and it dosent recognise this drive.

I'm running a bit late for an interview right now, but check this video out: *www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds1-JmbhGRM

It should give you an idea what a jumper does. If you still can't figure it out, then just pull that jumper lead out and trying plugging in the drive and booting the PC.

Configuring an IDE drive to be either Master or Slave is done with the jumper pins on the drive, these pins are nearly always between the Power connector and the IDE ribbon cable connector. Each manufacturer has different pin configurations for either Single drive in a computer, Master or Slave. Most often Single drive and Master are the same setting.

Read the manual for the setting, and configure it. It will tell you how the jumper setting should be, to keep your drive as 'slave'.

thanks guys for the answer.well i have installed it but why does it shows 'dvd ram' not rom.

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guys now i am having a new problem.well even in this drive whenever i insert a blank dvd the windows recognises it as a cd and i get this. *img215.imageshack.us/img215/2447/36515367.png

this problem has started from previous few days(when my old drive was there).

please help.

^^ See if any burner software recognizes the blank dvd...as burnable...

well nero can burn it (in old drive)even it recognised the free space.

even windows can open it.but displays this as a cd.

^^ Can nero burn it via the new drive you put in..?

yes it can.

^^ then I guess, you are fine. What is the issue..?

quan chi said:
guys now i am having a new problem.well even in this drive whenever i insert a blank dvd the windows recognises it as a cd and i get this. *img215.imageshack.us/img215/2447/36515367.png

this problem has started from previous few days(when my old drive was there).

please help.

It's not a problem. That's how Windows usually recognises blank media.

Ethan_Hunt said:
It's not a problem. That's how Windows usually recognizes blank media.

but previously if i had inserted a blank dvd then the words dvd used to appear instead of cd.

and it even used to recognize the free space.it showed free space:0 bytes.
used space:-0 bytes.

As long as you can read an entire DVD/burn it to full capacity, there is no problem. Try that and then report if there is a problem please.

don`t worry man, winxp do no suport dvd burning, so you may not be seeing the free space for your dvds. May be because of this the blank dvds are shown as cd and not as dvds. Use nero or other burning softs.

WinXP support cd burning only.

^^ If you can burn at the speeds your drive is rated..you are fine. Forget about nomenclature.