well i turned my pc on today and it took ages to search my cdrw for boot record even tho there was no cd in it and now my pcs stuttering and freezing for 1/2 a second 10 times a min and its ok if i unplug the cdrw ne ideas pls or is the cdrw just screwed? if it is im gonna have to get a dvd r drive which i cant afford cos cdrws rnt worth buying ne more
Hmmm... that's a strange problem. Try the drive in another machine? Try another drive in your machine? If it's gubbed a nice new 48x LiteON CD-RW costs about £55
if i have my cdrw in my machine i cnat see either dvd or cdrw and if i have cdrw in i cant see it dvd in i can see the one drive and ive tried master n slave on both to no affect so im gonna get a dvd rw on monday grrrrr goodbye cash
How are your IDE channels set up? At the moment I have one CD-RW as a slave to my 60Gb (IDE0) drive and the other CD-RW as a slave to my 100Gb (IDE1) drive. Check in the BIOS and make sure that they are in fact showing up. If not, try a different IDE cable and see if that makes any difference. Try the drive on the other IDE channel, it may be your IDE controller. Failing that, I would have to say something is seriously wrong.
ive checked the cable and ive got 1 master on ide 0 which is a maxtor 30 gig and my cdrw is master on 1 with dvd as slave on 1 it was working until friday then windows started jerking when the cdrw is connected
