Win DVD Help

[wub]

I bought a new Dell 8200 last year, Pentium 4, 256mb ram,cd writer, dvd player etc.. everything worked fine. I use my machine to edit digital video, so I installed an extra hard drive of 40mb just for video. It works fine too.

As soon as I had installed the 2nd drive Win DVD no longer recognised the dvd player and gives a 'cd/dvd drive not found' error. I can work round it by going into Win DVD playlist and forcing it to play a selected track, so I know everything is still connected. Not elegant but not vital either. The drive shows up in system/drives and I'm told it is working properly, with no conflicts.

Yesterday I bought Adobe Photoshop Abum, expressley to burn Video CDs of my digital photos for displaying on TV. When I tried to burn a vcd I got a 'there is no writeable cd or dvd drive available'Im starting to smell a rat because Win DVD and Album both use MPEG files and neither programme can detect my drive, any thoughts please?

I'm using Windows ME

[spannersatcx]

Before installing your extra hard drive your dvd rom would of been drive D, after installing the extra hard drive, the hard drive would become D and the dvd rom would become E.

win dvd may still be looking for your DVD rom at position D rather than E.

Suggest reinstalling win dvd which should then see the drive as E rather than D. Also make sure DMA is activated for the DVD Rom.

Also make sure the jumpers for slave/master are set correctly on the new drive. And maybe swop drives around on the ide channels and make sure auto detect is set in the bios.

[wub]

Thanks for your help Spanner but no go. I also have a dual card reader for my digicam so I remapped the drives so that the card reader is E and F, the DVD is X and the CDR is Y. I've set the default drive to X in WinDVD. I've reinstalled WinDVD several times to no avail.

The jumpers are okay because everything is recognised in the control panel/system window. If I use the software 'eject' in Win DVD the drive works, so the software knows the drive is there. There is a funny though that in Windows ME there is no DMA box on the drive properties.