I plugged in my DVD drive while the computer was still on. Now it wont read any IDE devices. What can I do?

Question

I plugged in the DVD drive, the computer lagged than crashed. Now when I reboot it wont read any IDE devices including the hard drive. Keeps telling me to reboot and select a proper boot device.

Answer 1

I guess you kinda learned not to do a "hot swap" on that device. You should only swap out or tamper with DVD, CD, or hard disk drives with the computer shut down completely.

You may need to go into your system BIOS by hitting the Delete button on your keyboard. Refresh your devices and make sure that you set your computer to the device you want it to boot to first, be it the hard drive or your DVD drive. Save the changes and exit and allow your computer to boot up normally.

I hope this works. Otherwise, with the computer off, unplug the cables to your DVD drive and see if your computer boots normally. If it does, you may have ruined your DVD drive or at least arced your pins and slots when you attached the drive while hot. Good luck

Oh and another thing: Make sure your red stripe on your ribbon cables face the red wire on the device's power plug.

Reference:
http://www.daileyint.com/build/ibuild6.htm

Answer 2

undesirable concept, that has a greater advantageous probability of ruining the recommendations than improving it. Is there an working gadget on the force you're attempting to connect? If there is, there's a raffle that the computing device could freak out. Disconnect the main (universal grasp) force and hook this one up as a universal grasp. in case you want this one as a secondary slave, be certain you have a secondary grasp. do no longer complication with CS. merely grasp or slave. And as quickly as you change on the computing device, pass without delay to the BIOS (F1 or DEL keys) till now the working gadget comes up, to configure the hot force.

Answer 3

Before deleteing anything do this.. Turn off the pc, undo what you did. reboot the pc, while its booting press F8 (after the light on the keyboard flickers). select last known good configuration. let it boot. Then shut down and reboot to make sure it boots normally. then shut down again and do what it was that you were trying to do in the first place. (add a new drive). everything should go good for you..

Answer 4

not a problem OK uninstall your DVD player go to start, control panel ,system and then hard wear manager. OK find your DVD player in hard wear manager right click it and click uninstall. then reboot your machine should pick up that there is new hard wear and install it again

Answer 5

turn the computer off. open up the box and unplug everything. all your drives and hard disk too. plug them back in and boot up. if it's still not booting up then you've fried it. wipe the hard drive and re-install the os from the system disk.

Answer 6

if i was you i wouldnt have done that in the first place since most computers will do that. thus plugged it in when it is off much safer that way in most cases. if you can select BIOS or something similar then use that. and one more thing make sure you have the drivers if you dont already then get them from the manufactuerer

Answer 7

Well, I hope it was not an expensive computer. You might be able to get an aftermarket ide controller to work, depending on the extent of damage to the motherboard.

Answer 8

i would try loading bios defaults first ... then if that doesnt work try a cmos clear.. and yeah like the other guy said check all your cabling and that the harddrive is plugged into the same ide it originally was.

Answer 9

make sure your ide cable is pluged in all the way. oh and never ever plug things into your comp with the power on your asking for big big trouble.