not reading DVD drive

MY bios shows and reads i have the dvd drive, and also on startup it reads it but its not in windows, not in my computer or on device manager i cant understand why not, any1 know why?

you have the jumpers set right-master-slave

Yeah check your jumpers

yep jumper is in right position, was on 3rd one in but now put it on master still nothing

I will assume that you have xp AND that you have the dvd on your secondary ide ? You may want to DL tweak ui , a free tool. If you have xp make sure you get the tweak ui for xp. Drives can be hidden and tweak ui will show you hidden drives. I seariously think that is not the case, i think it is something else, you should check first to make sure. You may also want to try safe mode and see if the drive appears.

nope still doesnt appear

look around, u can get a new one for about 20$

I don't know... I had a similar problem, but it was the jumpers...



My HDD is master and my cd and DVD drives are both set to cable selection (CSEL)... worked for me... Don't know why i don't have them as slaves, but oh well..