Ok, I had two DVD-ROM drives in my system an hour ago: One traditional one connected 
to a standard IDE cable (and set to master) and one new Blu-Ray drive connected to 
a SATA port.  This worked perfectly.  Now I added a third DVD-ROM (the third one's 
a LightScribe drive), which I connected to the second part of the standard IDE cable 
and set the drive to slave.

I booted up XP, and it found both of the IDE DVD drives, but it now insists the Blu-Ray 
is no longer present!  I run the full add hardware wizard and insists it cannot find 
such a thing and none of the "force it yourself" options include anything at all 
from Lite-On (the maker of one of the IDE DVD drives and the Blu-Ray DVD drive). 
 Furthermore, there are no drivers available at Lite-On's site.

So what the hell do I do now?

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Well, after a couple of reboots, it's there now. Case closed.

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NO! The case is NOT CLOSED!  It's just gotten weirder!

Now, my system thinks all three of my DVD drives are CD drives!  When I try to run 
Retrospect to backup some files to the Blu-Ray DVD-RW drive (because it can hold 
25 GB on one disk), it says it cannot use the Blu-Ray drive because it does not have 
a drive letter.

Yet that drive DOES have a drive letter, it's just that it shows up in "My Computer" 
as a CD drive instead of a DVD drive!

The Device Manager display is 100% correct, though.

So what do I do?  PLEASE HELP!

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This may sound stupid but, do you have disk burning software installed that is compatible 
with Blu-Ray?







On Friday, March 28, 2008 at 9:40 pm, Martin Bush wrote:

>NO! The case is NOT CLOSED!  It's just gotten weirder!

>

>Now, my system thinks all three of my DVD drives are CD drives!  When I try to run 

>Retrospect to backup some files to the Blu-Ray DVD-RW drive (because it can hold 

>25 GB on one disk), it says it cannot use the Blu-Ray drive because it does not 
have 

>a drive letter.

>

>Yet that drive DOES have a drive letter, it's just that it shows up in "My Computer" 

>as a CD drive instead of a DVD drive!

>

>The Device Manager display is 100% correct, though.

>

>So what do I do?  PLEASE HELP!

>
 

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Yep.  All the drivers and other Blu-Ray software is present and was working perfectly 
yesterday before I installed the second IDE DVD drive.

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