2 optical drives not working with Windows 7

there is only one IDE connection to the motherboard

Well i have just poped to the shops and bought myself a new DVD-RW and its working perfectly fine now. Its SATA too so im guessing slightly faster (ment i could rid of all my IDE cables and messy 4pins!).

I guess this is problem solved now but annoyling i had to spend money.

Thanks to all who gave advice, helped out and everything.

Scott

Just out of curiosity - what drive did you buy? I'm having the same problems and don't want to go and buy a drive that's just going to do the same thing again.

I had the same problem today , its was a windows 7 regedit problem quote :

- Quote: Originally Posted by mSeliga
I found this on a website when my bluray drive stopped working. Go to this registry address in RegEdit and delete a something on the right called "Upper ____" and "Lower ___" I don't remember exactly, but after i deleted them, i was golden.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

EDIT

It's called "UpperFilters" and "LowerFilters"



I personally only saw the LowerFilters and removed them , works fine now .



Windows 7 Optical Drive Issues

good luck !

Thanks Hemified. I've got a post on another Forum asking about this - in my case I don't have the Upperfilters or LowerFilters. I've done every little tweak I can find online (from disabling Driver Signing to removing the drives, different software, reinstalling 7, etc.) but nothing's working for me

If you are connecting two IDE devices (HDD or optical drives) to one ribbon cable then I believe you need to set jumpers in the back of the devices themselves. One to master and one to slave. I think the one on the end of the ribbon is the master. If you connect an optical drive and an HDD to the same cable I think you have to put the HDD on the end and make it the master.