Hi !
I have had to replace my CD/DVD Combo drive on my HP Pavilion ZT1155 as the old drive was spoilt. I bought a new DVDRW drive TEAC DV-W24EW which I have installed in its place. The drive is recognised by windows and works fine in windows. The drive is installing as Secondary Slave. I have tried to re-install many times, but it keeps coming in as secondary slave with PIO Mode only.
The problem is that BIOS does not recognise this drive at bootup and I cannot boot from this drive. I actually bought this drive as I wanted to re-install the original factory software from the recovery CD’s.
Trying to change the boot order in BIOS is not helping as it refuses to boot from CD/DVD. The HP Pavilion ZT1155 BIOS does not give us any options for setting IDE channels to select for bootup. Also I have run the eDiagtools software provided by HP at startup and it is showing an error in Optical drive in the preliminary scan, but when I do and advanced scan of the same drive it says drive is okay….?? I am confused.
Does anybody have any suggestions that I can try to fix this.
Thanks in advance.
KSB