Pc won't boot completely, IDE HDD IDE DVD DVD and SATA HDD

loganhillman1

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Oct 11, 2016
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I am having tons problems, and no help. I have ide secondary w a CD-RW n DVD rw and HDD w OS on primary ide. 32o HDD on SATA for extra space. I'm really fam w software, learning as I go on this stuff. My CD DVD drives haven't been reading discs at all, but show in device manager ok . Msinfo no prob devices. I've uninstalled drivers and reinstalled. No reg to delete. Really about everything but clean lens. But pc had been booting fine.

So I grabbed DVD RW out of my other built pc and tried to c if would read and my other drives are just done. But I seen my ide w my OS hdd was hooked w gray(the slave connector) (even tho it had been booting as master) so I switched and hooked up the black one. Now when I boot, BIOS recognizes ide primary hdd slave and ide DVD master And slave. Goes to raid screen, XP logo screen, then we're standstill black screen, for 6 hrs atleast till I just turned it off..... Man anyone help please would greatly appreciate anything considering I can't let my young n watch movies
 

loganhillman1

Commendable
Oct 11, 2016
4
0
1,510
-- updated

I re connected my pc ( Mobo says 'shuttle' ? btw), I got HDD w/ OS as master on primary ide, and 2 DVD-RW for master and slave on secondary ide. And my extra storage 32ogb on SATA. Checked bios for boot priority, tried again. Didn't make to Windows logo before black screen froze. Tried and tried rebooting, added fan 3 to generally help out, wouldn't start.

I figured it might b trying to boot from SATA drive, so disconnected the SATA, reboot. And wow it actually restarted and I'm on my desktop.so l uninstalll drivers for both DVD, reboot, tried DVD in both drives, one at time, it will spin light up, but nothing, still spin and lights. Eventually stops and nothing. My com shows 'dvd-ram' click and says'please insert a disk in drive E' and the other shows 'dvd-rw' for (D:) , click it opens to empty folder labeled (D:)

I know it two questions, one about configuration and other bout DVD prob but I'm totally lost.

Please any help if greatly greatly greatly appreciated, thanks