I just got my hand on an HP dvd burner 200i. When i boot it takes seriously 5 min to get it all the way into windows though, has anyone else have this kind of issue? Or does anyone have any imput...it currently a slave drive whereas my cd-rw/dvd player is the master...im also running daemon tools virtual drive so its c: d: = cd-rw/dvd e: = daemon e: = dvdrw. TY

hmmm sounds strange maybe try to reinstall windows ... that should fix it .... you can do a backup before ... if this does not fix the problem ... u know

actually since im a good buy...I know have a legit copy of windows I havent installed it yet but soon...I feel like I have givin into the man :hail: oh well I got it for free (father owns a computer company :finger: ) Anyways...it stopped doing the long bbot ups after about 4 times so im happy...now im ordering the cd from HP that i need, and hopefully ill be pirating big time in a few weeks

hmm a optical drive must work without drivers ....
I mean I have some strange thing like this, too
I have 3 SATA and 1 PATA drive
when I only had PATA the blue bar at windows startup got round 1 to 2 times ....
with sata RAID its 0.75 to 1 time
but when I connect the PATA with the other SATA devices the blue bar goes through at least 4 times idling ... even if the HDD is formated and empty ...

Adjust the boot order, clear the prefetch folder. Good luck.

K im having a little better luck...since i have SATA HD i put the burner on primary IDE channel as cable select...i put my other drive as master on secondary...seemed to boot fine. But when i go to my comp. and stick a cd in the drive...it gives me some sort of IO error :-? . Another thing is, is i got this from someone..its still bran new..but he didnt have the install cd....you think i need that cd and maybe it will work better? I hope so cause i ordered one online for 9.95, because i did find out that there is a firmware update for that drive too....but it wont update without that original cd...anyways...anyone have any other ideas they would like to share?

Is some of the pins behind the drive missing? This might cause I/O error.

huh ? cable select ??
thats the worst thing you could do ... set it to master or slave and try again .... NEVER use cable select

Well I am now the proud owner of a halfway legit copy of winxp Home I still couldent go through with buying it...but a buddy of mine upgraded to xp pro..and he gave me his old copy :finger: Microsoft

and this means for the problem with the drive ... u are now going to reinstall ? have u tested master / slave jumpered drive

Well I boot up normal now...and i see the drive as a dvd burner....now im just waiting on the install dick from Hp

hmmmm a driver for a burner ... I don't think so ... the CD will be filled with quistartmanual and such things ... but a driver for a CDROM ? never seen that ... never heard that anyone needs that ...

well the thing is, is that when i try to install the firmware update from HP website...it requires somthing from the manufactur cd to be installed....and i believe that everything will work fine after i get that firmware update