atapi drives seen as scsi

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I recently fitted a new hard drive but when I installed XP home edition it set my DVD Re-writer and my LITEON CDRW as SCSI drives instead of ATAPI drives. This is causing me problems as I don't have a SCSI interface and my burning software won't recognise my drives correctly. Is there any way I can change these settings?
My previous HD was 30Gb FAT32, the new one is 80Gb NTFS and both were Maxtor.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Clover................

 

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Are you are the motherboard built-in ATAPI/IED port or an add-on PCI ATA.
Or maybe you have use the RAID controller?

Only the built-in IDE ports will list the drives (amy type) as ATAPI/IDE.
The other contolloer will be trated as SCSI.


"Clover" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0B7D0FB8-DAC6-4A23-B583-8F5A6255CBBC@microsoft.com...
> I recently fitted a new hard drive but when I installed XP home edition it
set my DVD Re-writer and my LITEON CDRW as SCSI drives instead of ATAPI
drives. This is causing me problems as I don't have a SCSI interface and my
burning software won't recognise my drives correctly. Is there any way I can
change these settings?
> My previous HD was 30Gb FAT32, the new one is 80Gb NTFS and both were
Maxtor.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Clover................