dvd drive problem

[shadowbreaker513]

i found a toshiba dvd drive in one of the old computers my dad gave to me and i decided to install it into my computer. i took out the normal cd drive and left the cd burner. i set up the dvd drive as a slave drive and put it where the old normal cd drive was, same cables and everything. when i rebooted, windows would not detect the drive, but i opened it, closed it, and when i closed it the disk started spinning up. i rebooted and went into my bios and the secondary ide slave was disabled. i changed the type to a cd drive, saved, and exited. now when i rebooted, i got something like ATAPI incompatable (or not compatable) i think. now this is the first optical drive i've installed so i know i did something wrong. i also don't have a floppy drive so i can't do any sort of drivers thru that. any ideas? (and i have to much unbacked up stuff to reformat at this time)

[glc]

Check your cabling and jumpering. Did you jumper it exactly the same as the drive you replaced it with?

[shadowbreaker513]

yes, the little black thing is on the pins in the same place, all the cables were exactly the same as the one that was previously in.

[bailey]

which version of windows are you useing ?
it is a possibility that it may need special drivers for it to work.
what can you tell us about what kind of computer it came out of.

[shadowbreaker513]

i'm running windows xp home. and i think the reason it's not working is because i pulled it out of a 5 year old gateway, so it may be a proprietary part (however my dell laptop had something about atapi and the dvd drive and my old one looked identical

[mrmister1]

The drive may be bad. There shouldn't be any problems if you set the drive up the same as the old one.

[shadowbreaker513]

i don't think it is because when i had it set up on my hard drive IDE cable, it detected the drive fine but i couldn't get to the hard drive. when i get home from school i'll try setting it to the master drive and my burner to the slave