CD-RW Drive not recognised in my computer

[squelch59]

Dear All

I put together this computer last week (AMD Athlon XP 2000+, Windows XP Home Edition SP1) with a single CD-RW drive. The drive was on its own on the secondary IDE channel on my Abit KV7 mobo. I Recently put in a DVD drive and I had to swap the IDE channels over because the cable wouldn't reach to the DVD player!! So I now have my two HDD on the Secondary IDE channel and my CD-RW (slave) and DVD player (master) on the primary IDE channel.
When the computer is powered up and all running I open My Computer and my CD-RW isn't there! I checked in Windows Media Player and it's not there either.

BUT when I have a look in the deivce manager and the Computer Managment program it's there sitting quite happily!

If i put in a music CD it doesn't start automatically but the drive visually and aurally seems to work fine!

any ideas??

Regards

James

 

[Yaesu]

Not to sure what would cause that. Maybe have the cd-rw master and the dvd player as slave. Also i thought i heard somewhere that it's better for your HD to be on the primary IDE. Could be wrong.