I had this in my old comp and it worked fine, but I can't seem to get it to work now. The device manager recognizes the hardware and has it listed in disk drives. I need to know how to change it's location to D:\ or E:\ and make sure it will burn my discs. Can anyone help me?
2006-11-15 04:31:28 · 2 answers · asked by aulnersgirl 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Nerdboy, it has burned before, I just can't seem to get it to do anything, but be recognized, It does not come up as the primary slave or secondary channel either. I'm not quite sure what's going on. I am using WinXP now as well, could that have something to do with it?
2006-11-15 04:51:16 · update #1
the secret is in the jumpers http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/cdrom/index.html
2006-11-15 04:33:35 · answer #1 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did it burn before or is this the first time to burn.
Yes the jumper setting can throw off some burner programs so you have to play around and find one that does. My mothers computer has the issue with the programs. AVS Disc Creator is good but it only burns DATA cd's. HT Fireman is one that I use to burn Audio discs. Its the free version and not the trial one.
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If its burned before and not now then it can be two things. Either the drive has went bad (which is probably the problem since its not being recongnized now since it was working before), or the IDE channel on the motherboard is bad (which is not likely but I've seen it before).
When drives go bad that become unrecognized so that is most likely the problem. If you have a spare cd drive try it on the same channel and cable that your maxtor burner drive is on if it works then your drive is bad, if it does the same crap then its the channel thats bad. If the board is going bad most likely other crap will start happening.
2006-11-15 04:38:16 · answer #2 · answered by nerdboy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋