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DVD Drive and Hard Drive, Cable Select or Master-Slave Configuration?

Anonymous
2011-01-17T03:22:35+00:00

Dear Sir or Madame:

I have an NEC DVD drive, Model ND-1300A, that has not been able to recognize CD disks since after Windows XP was installed on the computer in the master position on the data/control cable and a parallel ATA 250-GB hard drive in the slave position. The cable is an 80-pin IDE-UDMA cable. How should I configure the jumpers on the two drives? Should I set them both to "Cable Select" or should I set the DVD drive to "Master" and the hard drive to "Slave"?

                                               Regards,

                                               Peter Dooling

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-01-18T02:31:29+00:00

    S Shekhar:

    The jumpers on both drives are set to "Cable Select" and the DVD drive at the end, or Master position and the hard drive is at the intermediate, or Slave position on the cable. The DVD drive is thus configured as the Master and the hard drive is configured as the Slave.

                                                                         Regards,

                                                                          Peter Dooling

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-01-18T15:17:20+00:00

    Hi,

    **Method 1.**Lets us start with the steps listed in the article below and check.

    Your CD drive or DVD drive is missing or is not recognized by Windows or other programshttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/982116

    **Method 2.**You may also try the methods listed in the articles below and check.

    Windows XP does not recognize a DVD-RW dischttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/818733/

    Device settings are hard to find in Windows XPhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/310751/

    Advanced troubleshooting for issues that occur when you are installing a new CD or DVD drive on Windows XPhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/314096/

    Hope this helps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-01-17T17:41:12+00:00

    Hi,

    1. Could you explain how is the DVD drive setup? Is it set as a slave or master?
    2. Does the Cable Select match that setting? Do you remember how the DVD drive was set up before?

    If you have the DVD drive set to master change it to slave and check.  You may also refer to NEC product document for the DVD drive.

    Hope this helps.

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