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by pkarrel

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I moved the hard drive from an old pc to a new one.
Problem is that the cdrom is not detected. When one looks in the device manager, there is no entry for
ide secondary channel. If I use dos drivers the cdrom is usable. I used the setup disk for the new pc and it installed the corrrect primary ide controller. Any suggestions would be welcome.

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by bobho

What operating system is on the hard drive? I'm assuming you're using Windows. One thing you can try no matter what operating system you are using is to boot with the dos drivers and then do and new hardware detection when you are in windows. Otherwise post back with the system specs.

Enjoy,

DrBob:>)

by thechas

Hi,

What you need is the IDE bus driver for the new motherboard.

Windows 98 in particular is very fussy about having the chipset manufactures driver for the IDE bus.

Even if your new system has a chipset from the same manufacture, it likelyneeds different driver settings.

If you know who made your motherboard / chipset, get the latest drivers from them.
If you need help identifying who made your motherboard check out the ID tools at www.motherboards.org
or www.wimsbios.com

Unless you "need" DOS mode access, I would delete the DOS driver lines from autoexec.bat and config.sys

When I move a drive from 1 system to another, the last thing I do before shutting down the old system is delete ALL devices that will be differenton the new system from device manager.

Chas

by thechas

Make sure that both the secondary IDE channel, and the master/slave drive is enabled in BIOS settup.

If the BIOS does not detect the drive, Windows cannot see it either.

Chas

by volovoy

It works for Win 9x only. First make a copy of the registry. Start regedit, goto
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum\MF key.
Delete this key, restart your computer and after loading OS restart again.

by kelsey

Change the jumpers on the cd-rom Or just pull the jumper right of the cd-rom itself.

by europanorama

delete cdrom in device manager, shut down, remove ide-cdromcable, restart pc, reinstall cable after shutting down. restart and cd-drive is working, check the cable, exchange ide1 with ide2 and you will see if hddrive is not working, cable must be replaced. otherwise you will have to clean it(lens-cleaning with distilled water,no alcohol) use molykote or similar grease where its needed.

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