PC thinks DVD drive is a floppy

[detrunks]

HI,
I've recently changed my PC case and when I booted up in the new system I found that the PC thinks that my DVD drive is a floppy. It's connected via an IDE cable to the IDE (optial) bit of the the motherboard - how can it possibly think it's a floppy drive??!

I'm using an asus a8n-e with XP pro. The optical drive is a NEC DVD-RW drive. I have no floppy drive!

thanks for any responses.

 

[kimsland]

Fix CD/DVD issues

>>> XP http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_cd_dvd_fix.htm

Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461/en-us

Once complete, please restart

 

[sshedlock]

have you upgraded the firmware of the DVD drive?

 

[detrunks]

thx for the replies - I tried the fix and went into BIOS and also changed the connecting cable - this worked but I'm not sure why!!!

 

[kimsland]

Sorry (your words are a little confusing) which one worked exactly?
I think it was changing cables that fixed it fully, is that correct? Or was it a combination of that and something else?

 

[detrunks]

The 'script' didn't appear to fix it after the first reboot. On the second reboot I changed the cable and went into BIOS to 'delete' any reference to a floppy. When booted, the dvd drive appeared.

 

[kimsland]

Oh sorry, no that was the fix that did it
I forgot that it does take 2 reboots (I know that sounds like, sure right)
But I've had the exact same response from many other users who have done this (after I mentioned to run it)
woops forgot to mention that

 

[detrunks]

OK, cool!!