Technical help needed

[MikeCT01]

I recently purchased my first DVD burner. The one I got was a Nu-Tech DVD-R, +r. Anyway... I had it working for a while, although not well. It seems to not like CD's. Now I put a CD in this drive and the computer does not recoginize the disk (store-bought recorded CD). Can anyone help me to see if I installed it correctly? The install instructions were not very clear. The thing I am confused about mostly is that Slave/Master thing. Currenly, the DVD drive(D) is Master, I had a cd-rom(N) as slave and a CD burner(O) as a slave as well... then of course the hard drive (C). The DVD drive I installed replaced a CD burner that was in that bay.

[communist]

Both drives are accessable in windows or displayed in your BIOS? If yes then they should be configured correctly. Also there can only be one master and one slave per IDE cable. So if you misconfigured one drive (jumper setting) it shouldn pop up in BIOS or windows at all.

Now to your actual problem:
Are you probably trying out copy-protected audio CDs that refuse to work in computer CD/DVD-ROM drive? Does it have a problem in general reading CDs or just some particular ones?

I would return it to the shop you bought it if it has problem reading all kind of CDs - not just *special* ones.

[MikeCT01]

Well, after I had installed the DVD burner, all seemed ok for a while. I played CD's and DVD's. Within, I'd say the past couple weeks it changed. I uninstalled my Roxio Easy CD&DVD Creator (which had been on my computer for quite a long time before the DVD came) reinstaled the Nero 6 sofware that came with my burner. So, now the drive recognizes DVD's, but not Cd's. AS far as the Master/Slave thing.. The original drive that was there was set to 'cable select'. Now that drive is the original drive that came with my computer. Then I have the regular CD-Rom, also set to cable select, the is the cd-burner I installed a couple years ago which is set to slave. So, when I replaced the first drive with the DVD burner, I set to the same position as that drive: 'cable select'. So I guess after that long winded explanation, how do I get it to recognize cd's again?? And I am usisng the same cd's that I was able to play on it previously.

[communist]

Sounds pretty much like your drive is defective.

[Asmodian]

I think you have a defective drive too, I had a drive break in the opposite way - It could read CDs but not DVDs.