CHANGING CD-ROM DRIVE SETTINGS...CS-CS to MASTER-SLAVE

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Hi, I currently have to CD-ROM drives. The drive on top is a DVD-ROM drive
and the one on the bottom is a DVD-R (Recordable) drive. I currently have
both drives set to the CS setting. I just reinstalled WINDOWS XP with a new
hard drive.

The IDE cable is hooked up from the mother board to the DVD-ROM drive which
works fine. After I installed Windows and everything I turned off my computer
and put the middle section of the IDE cable to my DVD-R drive. However, my
computer is not detecting this drive at all. I checked under BIOS and it
lists the drive, but the info is all 0MB for all the specs. The DVD-R drive
also doesn't show up in the MY COMPUTER folder.

My hard drive is also set to CS because I plan on hooking up my previous
hard drive with the new one so I can retrieve all my old files.

The manual for my DVD-R drive says to put the settings as MASTER and SLAVE
with the DVD-R drive. However, last time I did this when I was installing the
DVD-R drive, my computer wouldn't start Windows anymore....not even in SAFE
mode, causing me to have to buy a new hard drive so as to not lose my
important data, and re-install Windows XP. I'm worried that if I attempt to
switch the drives again, something might happen. Any suggestions? Should I
just give it a try?

Thanks in advance,
-Mike
 
Cable Select is not the best or usual option when connecting devices. The
device at the end should be set to Master and the middle one to Slave;
including hard drives.

I have two hard drives, one DVD player and one CD ROM drive connected this
way and things run just fine.
 
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