Hi, I bought a phillips sata dvd drive and have been monkeying around trying to install it on dell 8400 P4 3.00ghz 2.5gig ram. XP OS. the hard drive is Sata and a
power cable is connnected to it and has one other connector available. The MB has 4 Sata data ports with 0 being used by the hard drive. What I did was removed my old cd-rw drive and replaced it with the dvd drive and hooked the power cable (the one that shares the hard drive) and bought a sata data cable and plugged one end into the drive and one into the motherboard. I tried 2 different positions on the motherboard. I got a message on pre boot that said drive 5 not recognized. Sata is enabled in the bios. Any thoughts on this??
Thanks for your time, lbs
