DVD Drive only reads DVDs when connected to the same IDE cable as the HDD
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Yesterday I plugged an open part of the IDE cable I use for my HDD into my DVD drive. It worked and booted into Ubuntu fine. Today I found another IDE cable and now I'm using it to separate the HDD and DVD drive (just having one isn't long enough to keep the DVD drive in the case), and it won't recognize DVDs. It won't boot into my Windows 7 DVD, and when I'm in XP it doesn't think I have a used DVD in the drive. Please help me with this, because I really want to get Windows 7 on my backup computer and I want to always have support for DVDs without taking out the DVD drive and plugging it in outside the case.
It also did this with a USB IDE enclosure and a different DVD drive, but it may have just been the DVD drive that time.
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Now it's not working with any DVD drive or IDE cable.
Upgrade to SATA.
It's a backup computer, the only parts that go in it are usually parts that come out of my main computer.
Maybe the IDE slot is bad?
So let me get this straight. You have 2 IDE ports on the motherboard and you have two IDE devices (a HDD and a DVD drive). You want each one to be on a seperate cable. Did you make sure that on the back of each of the devices that the jumpers were set to Cable Select or Master without Slave? That may be your issue there.
It started working again in windows for some reason, but thanks for the help.
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