So a while back I bought a DVD/CD Drive from maplin and had nothing but problems and had to replacements. It was either not reading anything/being detected at all or stuttering.
it was a S-ATA drive so while waiting for the replacement I bought an IDE one because my motherboard has both leads and was told you could use a S-ATA hard drive with a IDE CD/DVD drive.
So I bought a LG Super Multi DVD Rewriter model GH22NP20 and it seemed to work but not for long at all. It would read CDs and so on and I could rip them to my pc but every time I did, I needed to then power down and disconnect the drive, plug it back in to rip another CD.
This was ages ago and I decided to finally take out the replacement I had forgotten about, a Samsung SH-S223 - the S-ATA one. It detected a disc, the disc that came with it but when trying to launch the exe the cd/dvd drive decided to disappear from my computer and now doesn't seem to want to come up at all. However I checked BIOS and saw the cd/dvd device.
I've tried swapping the leads and stuff and nothing seems to work and can't really understand what could be the problem.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

