CD/DVD Burner

[Digital Limit]

I just plugged it in, replacing my old CD Burner with it. Now it seems that neither the CD drive nor the new burner are recognizing any disks or telling my computer about them. I'd really like to be able to use these sometime soon, so any help on what I might have done wrong would be greatly appreciated.

[WhoGivesARatsAss]

Cheap: ASUS
Expensive: Plextor

[King Speedy]

Try disconnecting and reconnecting the IDE cable at both ends. If that doesn't do it, try replacing the cable altogether, making sure you use an 80-pin. If that still doesn't fix it, try uninstalling the IDE controller device in Windows, and rebooting to let it pick it up again.

[Chimera[NL]]

I thought CD/DVD burners/players didn't need a 80 pin IDE cable. I thought only HDD were fast enough to fully use those.

[Digital Limit]

I bought NEC, if that matters.

I'll try what you guys mentioned and see if I can get it to work.

[King Speedy]

']I thought CD/DVD burners/players didn't need a 80 pin IDE cable. I thought only HDD were fast enough to fully use those.


Regular CD drives don't need em, but DVD drives (especially burners) definitely do.

[Digital Limit]

It looks like my old CD drive was broken. I took the Master cable and plugged that directly into my new DVD drive and it worked fine. If I plugged the Slave or Master into the old drive it would break everything, so I'm going to simply toss that. It's too bad, but I still have the CD burner that can take it's place.

[Digital Limit]

I can't get Nero to identify my new DVD burner:

Recorder -> Choose Recorder... -> It's not in the list.

Any ideas?

I know the drive works as my computer recognizes the blank CD I put in. Speaking of which, should it be calling it a blank CD? It's not really a blank CD, it's a blank Legacy DVD-R.

Gawd, this shouldn't be this fucking hard.

Edit: Ah, well I found the auto-detect feature of Nero, but it wants me to use a CD for Nero I don't have. I, erm... lost it; yeah, I lost it.

Anywho, I need a way around this, so any help is appreciated.

[Chimera[NL]]

What is this feature you're talking about? Auto-detect what? If a new drive is placed in the system, Nero should just handle that right?

[SnapJaw]

Can you see the DVD burner in BIOS?

[Digital Limit]

I just got Nero 6 from my brother - it works now. Yay!

[SuperDavidGT]

Hit the fucker with a hammer till its bruised and leaking silicon juice, and if that doesnt work, stab the shit out of the powersupply with a kitchen knife. one without rubber grips

[SnapJaw]

So it was Nero that didn't support DVD writing in the first place?

[Chimera[NL]]

What did you use? Nero 1.2?

[Digital Limit]

Nero 5 or something around that. It was an issue of autodetecting the drive which required that I have the install CD. Rather lame.

[Chimera[NL]]

Yeah that's kinda odd. Never had that before.