IDE DVD Doesnt Work After Installing A 3rd SATA Harddrive

michael243

I installed a 3rd SATA Hard drive in my computer on friday night and since then the IDE DVD Drive doesnt work, it gets power but doesnt read the disks or show up in device manager BUT it shows up in the BIOS. I am confused what has happened but it has rendered my computer useless for what I need to use it for.

I just dont know what to do, it worked fine with the two hard drives but this third one has made it not want to work properly.

custardy

1st thing would be to disconnect the 3rd Sata drive and see if it works again.

michael243

custardy wrote: »

1st thing would be to disconnect the 3rd Sata drive and see if it works again.

Thanks for the suggestion, I have tried this, tried a different IDE cable also and no joy it still doesnt show up in windows but still does in the BIOS..

Nilrem

What OS are you using?
Also what is the PC (or even better motherboard model)?

Depending on the motherboard and OS combination it could be that it needs a setting in the bios changed to let the bios pass on the fact that you're using both 3 or 4 SATA drives and an ide at the same time (or it's possible the motherboard won't let you use SATA controllers 3 and 4 if you're using the IDE controller but will let you choose which to use in the bios**).

IIRC some motherboards did slightly odd things to try and make SATA work with Windows XP without special drivers.
For example one of the motherboards I had would end up with Windows XP describing every SATA port as Channel (number) Master, because it was basically pretending they were IDE controllers with a single drive connected, at least in one of it's modes for them* (it could set them as legacy, SATA, or AHCI or something similar).



*IIRC Windows XP coped quite happily with 4+ IDE controllers so it was an easy way to make the then new SATA controllers work with ease/no special drivers.

**For example my current motherboard has 2 ESATA ports, but you can either use them or 2 of the extra internal SATA ports.

michael243

Nilrem wrote: »

What OS are you using?
Also what is the PC (or even better motherboard model)?

Depending on the motherboard and OS combination it could be that it needs a setting in the bios changed to let the bios pass on the fact that you're using both 3 or 4 SATA drives and an ide at the same time (or it's possible the motherboard won't let you use SATA controllers 3 and 4 if you're using the IDE controller but will let you choose which to use in the bios**).

IIRC some motherboards did slightly odd things to try and make SATA work with Windows XP without special drivers.
For example one of the motherboards I had would end up with Windows XP describing every SATA port as Channel (number) Master, because it was basically pretending they were IDE controllers with a single drive connected, at least in one of it's modes for them* (it could set them as legacy, SATA, or AHCI or something similar).



*IIRC Windows XP coped quite happily with 4+ IDE controllers so it was an easy way to make the then new SATA controllers work with ease/no special drivers.

**For example my current motherboard has 2 ESATA ports, but you can either use them or 2 of the extra internal SATA ports.

I am using windows 8.1..

The motherboard is a Asus PRO P5Q Turbo

I had no problems till I installed this new hard drive, even when I have taken it back out the IDE drive still doesnt want to work in windows but it can still be booted from so it makes me think it is a software issue within windows itself the problem is that I havent yet found a solution.