How Do I Install A DVD Burner To My Pc?

Question

I recently bought a DVD burner that it came with a NERO Software CD, and that's it, no more information on it .

My computer's a Sony, so is the dvd burner I got. The thing is that I already have a CD-RW Drive and a DVD Drive, originally connected to my pc, now I'm trying to figure out how to install it.
I tryed by unplugging the cd-rw but as I turned my computer back on none of the drives will come up. Then I tryed by unplugging the dvd drive but as i turned the pc back on, windows won't even start.

Please help me!! and if I didn't make myself clear, you'll have to excuse me, beacuse I'm just not that bright when it comes to installing hardware.

So, again, is there anyone there who can help me???

Answer 1

Computer technician here.....Here's the catch as to why you're having this problem. Each of these drives have a little black plastic piece in the back of them which are called jumpers. The first thing I would do is, unplug your computer from your wall outlet or the surge protector first, then take out the DVD drive and look on the back of it, you will see a little black jumper (sometimes it can be blue), find out where it is set at. Look above it (on the metal part of it), there are letters stamped into the metal part or it may be on the sticker on top of it. It will show CS, SL, and MA. CS stands for Cable Select. SL stands for Slave. MA stands for Master. Look on the back of your DVD drive. If the little black or blue plastic jumper is set at SL (Slave) If you have a small needle nose plier, pull the small jumper out of your DVD burner (It's default setting is on MA) and push the jumper on SL (Slave). Then slide the DVD burner in and make sure you put the screws in on both sides of the DVD burner so that it does not slide. Next, plug the gray cable (called the ribbon cable) and the white power plug (that you unplugged from the DVD drive) into the DVD burner. Look very closly at the gray ribbon cable, you will notice a thin red stripe on the edge, it must face the white power plug as you plug it in. Sometimes it will only plug in one way because of the notches in the center. Then plug your computer in and start it up. It should boot up without problems. The next thing you will see when you get to your desktop view, Windows will automatically recognize your DVD burner and install it's driver. After it completes it, it will finally show up in the "My Computer" section with the rest of your drives. Your DVD burner can also act as a normal DVD drive as well. If unsucessful, my recommendation is take your DVD burner and your computer to your local computer shop and they will professionally install it for you. Good luck.



Note to Akshay: Nero does NOT detect any any such drives. It is simply a CD/DVD burning software.

Answer 2

if you already have a CD-RW and how were you burning cd's till now?? Nero automatically detects cd-rw or dvd-rw and the software gives you option to either write on a cd or dvd.. when you opened your PC, did you remove all cables?

Looks like both your hard drive and new dvd-rw are connected to the same cable and both are in either master or slave mode..check the jumper settings on both HDD and dvd-rw..

Connect the hard drive as Primary master and dvd -rw as Secondary master and cd-rw as Secondary slave(if you want to use both the optical drives), and check in BIOS (pres "del" at bootup to enter BIOS) if your HDD and both optical drives are detected or not.. make sure when doing all these things, power cable is unplugged , and you are wearing an anti-static band to your wrist and the other end is properly grounded..to avoid IC's and parts on the motherboard getting fried up due to static..

you can always upgrade the Nero software with the one which came with your new dvd-rw

Answer 3

A dvd burner/cd burner/cd/dvd drive all have two main components to connecting to the computer. 1. Information cable 2. power cable. Connect these two and you should be fine, Below is a guide that should help you.

Answer 4

Uh-oh, did you try plugging all the ROM back and see if the system went back to normal? If not, I am afraid your hard drive has just taken a dump. If things are back to normal after all the stuff are installed back the way it was, then you might have one of those BIOS that needs to be updated every time you remove or install a piece of hardward(it is not auto detecting).



There is another possibility that your system has SCSI drives(highly unlikely) if the data cable is one long continuous cable that goes to all the drives, make sure you have a terminator on the end.



What make and model is your machine? how old is it?

Answer 5

Is it an IDE or SATA drive?