When Harddrive is connected system wont see Burner

[Reloadron]

Originally Posted by FlameofTheWest

This is some what a continuation with attempting to install windows. So now im at this point, I have two DVD roms and one is a Sony burner. When i connect the older toshiba DVD Rom and attempt to boot up from the XP Disk I get a message that says Cannot boot from CD message 5. When i connect the Sony DVD Burner the system doesnt even recognize that the DVD burner is connected. Ive checked all the connections and everything is sound. The jumper connections are correct. I just cant figure it out, any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

OK, lets look at what you have exactly. First you do not have two DVD ROM drives if one of the two is a Sony Burner. You have a DVD ROM (Can read data but not write data) and you have a DVD RW (Can read and write data to a disk).

Next, myself and the others are guessing these drives are configured on a PATA controller. Typically your mother board has two PATA IDE ports. Primary and Secondary. Generally if you are running one or two hard drives they are on the Primary IDE port, your optical drives would then be on the Secondary IDE port. Now the IDE ports for PATA use the flat wide ribbon cables. Each cable will accomodate two drives. The drive at the end of the cable being a Master and the drive at mid cable being the Slave. The pin jumpers on the drives should be set accordingly. That unless in some cases on a few machines generally OEM machines the CS position is used.

Now how close to the above are you?

Start the machine and enter the BIOS. Look at what the BIOS sees and how it sees it. The BIOS should show all drives Hard and Optical. Exactly how are they showing up?

I would focus on getting some drives correct and set up before you worry about installing anything.

Ron

[FlameofTheWest]

Thanks for all the assistance, I found the issue. Looks like the jumpers were messed up some how. Thats why the system wouldnt recognize the DVD Burner. Once I fixed the jumpers it booted right up and installed with no problem. Thanks again for the help