Tempermental DVD RW - need some help pse

[KarelessK]

Hi

I have a Samsung DVD/CD drive which is tempermental and I do not think it is the DVDRW but Vista. This is because it was working fine when I did a Vista clean install (yesterday) and Vista has behaved strangely by creating a Floppy Disk Drive a: when I last logged in and I do not have one fitted?

When I load a CD/DVD into the drive the 'normal' wurrring noise and light flash but then they time out. If I try and access it through explorer it says load a disk?

I am baffled and would not mind some advice to help narrow down the problem.

 

[rtt_77388]

Vista gets hardware information about DVD, floppy, hard drives from the BIOS. It sounds like you BIOS is reproting an A drive (which on my mobo is a setting) and not reporting the DVD (that port maybe disabled).

 

[locoeng]

Is this a SATA drive or PATA(IDE)?

 

[KarelessK]

My DVD drive is SATA. I will check my BIOS settings aagin. Thanks for the replies.

 

[KarelessK]

Solved it by using an IDE drive. I replaced the SATA one - and did a fresh install. All seems to be working fine now.