install cd writer into pc with only 1 cd rom?

Question

ok just tried to install a cd burner into my motherinlaws pc, it previosly only had a cdrom in it but they want the burner in it too.
The cdrom is plugged into the second ide port on the motherboard and its the only thing on this circut. So i pug it into the free spot on this cable (which took up the middle space on the cord as the cdrom was already plugged into the end of cable) set it as master as the other one was setup up as slave then tryies to run the system.
It took forever to get thru the startup sequence ( where you hit del for bios) and eventually (like 2 mins later) loaded next screen but failed to boot up windows it told me to insert system disk.

I have done this once before on win 98 and had no probs i also have changed the cd burner to a dvd burner on my xp system and had no problems so why did this stuff up?

Answer 1

Try doing it again using the 'cable select' option on the jumpers. Might be what this pc is looking for.

Or second option, simply replace the old cd with the new burner with the old settings.