I am running a dell optiplex gx280, my setup up till now was 1 sata hd , and 1 dvd/rw combo. The sata is set to sata master and dvd to master IDE. I just installed a 2nd harddrive IDE and had to slave it off the DVD drive as I only have 1 IDE connection port on my motherboard. Both harddrives are working fine and detected, and the DVD is working in windows but in my bios the DVD isn’t showing up it says no device present or something to the effect under the master ide slot whereas the IDE harddrive is showing up fine under the slave ide slot.
I have tried setting via jumpers the DVD as both master and cable select and also tried setting the HD as both slave and Cable select. The fact that the drive works tells me the pc is recongnising it but I need it to be recognised in the bios so I can use it as a boot drive to install windows xp, as my copy is seriously riddled with spyware/backdoors etc.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated thank you!
