This has been driving me crazy for 3 days now and I can’t figure it out!
I have a Dell Dimension E521. It came with a DVD-Rom and a CDRW drive. I recently purchased the liteon DVDRW drive and stuck it in place of my regular DVDROM. The new drive is IDE so i had to get a IDE to Sata convertor for it, I have it all hooked up and it’s not being recognized by my computer. I have it set to master. It is getting power I just can’t get my computer to recognize it.
THe only thing I can think of (and I’ve googled this but can’t find anything related) is that the IDE spot on the drive came missing one of the tiny prongs. Can that render the drive unusable or is that something that is more minor and I can use it anyway?
