Well I have Windows XP SP2 on this computer and today I installed a new DVD-burner. Well everything seemed to be going good untill I booted it up, and it said "Found new hardware" I was thinking this was good and then it came up with "DVDRW blah blah" which is the device, so this is better, it recognizes it. Then up pops the FNH (found new hardware) wizard and it says that the system can't find the file specified.. well from there it goes on to saying that about my other CD drive (CDRW 52/24/52x) and it does the same thing. I go to My Computer and all I see is A:, the floppy drive. Then I decide to check out device manager and I get the yellow !'s under CD and DVD drives, and both say CD-ROM drive instead of DVDRW blah and CDRW 52/24/52x.. I've made sure that the slave and master jumpers are set right, and I've tried rebooting, uninstalling the "CD-ROM" drives from device manager, I uninstalled primary and secondary IDE controllers, and rebooted and it found my hard-drives, and it came up with finding the DVDRW and CDRW but then went on to the "can't find file specified" thing again. So what do I do about this? I'm going crazy trying to figure it out!

On edit: Now it's saying the "file not specified" thing about the Primary, Secondary and VIA Bus Master IDE channels and controllers.. fun..

 

Sounds like you need the drivers from the manufacture. The software that came with the machine should have the drivers for your orginal cd-rw.

You should have gotten a disc with the dvd burner. If not go to the manufacture's website and find the driver.

 

That's what I was thinking. Well I built this machine, and the CDRW and DVD drives didn't come with any driver CD's, they only came with Nero 6 and stuff like that. I've already looked for drivers. I did partition my drive and installed XP on that partition and had no problems burning things when booting up into that XP, so I'm copying everything over to my 2nd HDD and then I'm going to re-format the 1st. Thanks for the help.

 

try http://www.driverguide.com/
I find all my needed new and old drivers there.

 

Romer,

Did you set one drive as the master and one drive as the slave? It sounds like you have a conflict not a driver issue. Also CD drives usually do not need a driver disk, they are already in windows.

I assume you connected both drives to the same cable. Idf you did you need to make sure that one is set to master and one to slave OR use the CS (cable select) pin on the drives.

 

It's one thing to set the jumper re: slave and master per each disc drive

But did you attach the right drives to the right cable connectors on the IDE cable ?

AFAIK, it makes a difference.

 

I set the DVDRW to Master and CDRW to Slave, I don't know what my problems were because I re-installed Windows and I don't have a single problem. I've even burned 4 DVD's without a problem. Only thing that sucks now is that I have to go re-install all my programs, but at least I saved them on the 2nd HDD.

 

But did you plug the proper IDE cable connector to them ?

There are 3 to a cable.

The vertical lines simulate the connectors/drives

|--------------|--------|
IDE slot......Master....SLAVE

NOT

|-------------|---------|
IDE.............Slave.......Master

 

You might have a cable select.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCS-c.html

 

The other thing is did you really set the jumpers right ?

I made that mistake because I based the diagram on how I looked at the overall plug-in instead of going by the "single odd pin" as a guide.

Once I finally got that right, the system got everything right no more alerts like you are getting.

 

The jumpers are really set right, I reinstalled XP and there have been no problems.

I know a bit about computers (I've built 3 and have repaired many) and I couldn't figure out what in the world was going on. Still don't know what happened, but it's resolved now. I had the DVDRW set as Master and CDRW as Slave according to the diagram on the drives, both were very clear to understand how their jumpers worked. The only problem I had was getting my big fingers to put that little thing in there lol.

Even if I did have the DVDRW set to Slave and the CDRW set to Master, there still shouldn't have been a problem (if I did in fact get the jumpers messed up), because I know I didn't have it on cable select.

 

It may have been a registry error from something previously installed.

Don't worry about it - it runs, don't fix it!

 

I'd try each drive seperatly (one at a time) to make sure both work, Then if they work then swap the ide cable. if that doesnt work, maybe your drives are not compatable with eachother.

 

I'm sorry but.. Jake.. did you listen to anything I've typed? I've got the problem solved.

By the way, I did try each drive seperately (and made sure they were on Master as well), and swapped out the ide cable. Since I've reinstalled Windows there has been 0 problems, 0%, nada, none. Thanks though.

 

hell no, My computer doesnt speak to me... LOL actually I quit reading right before"but it's resolved now"