Azman

Hello there. Right I'm not being thick but I think I have a prob and don't know how to go about sorting it. Story so far: I have recently bought my mates computer. When I got it I transfered my HDD and CD RW drive to the case which already had a 40GB HDD and a DVD Drive. I formatted the drive, installed XPpro and have not had a problem since. 2wks ago I bought a liteon DVD DL RW drive. Here's the problem. I have taken the Liteon and set to master. The old dvd drive has been set to slave and th CDRW removed. On startup it does all the checks gets to verifying data..... then goes to Boot from CD..... Not to XP as per usual. Now If i disconnect the DVD drive and leave just the liteon connected No probs and vice versa. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M GOING MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really cannot figure this one out. AZMAN

Hello Jimmijo. The bios is currently set so that it boots 1. HDD 2. HDD 3. Floppy I thought that it might have been the case but it proved me wrong. See why this is doing my head in yet. Cheers

Sorry! It looks wrong the way I have written it. IDE1 - 40GB HDD (XP Drive) 8GB HDD IDE2 - Liteon DVD DL Samsung DVD Drive THis is the one I am having the problem with or poss both. Sorry I explained it wrong.