Optical Drive Issue after new HD install

[colbell]

I had a HD failure, so decided to replace both my HD with a new single HD, removing a 16Gb and a 40Gb drive. Up to this point, both my CDRW and DVD drives were working without any problems.

After installing the new HD, my CDRW drive will not autoplay, and to access the media on the CD in the drive, I have to right click the drive in My Computer and choose Open. My DVD drive is even worse - putting any disk in the drive will cause everything to lag, freezing input every 3-5 seconds. If I try to right click and choose open for the DVD drive, the pc will freeze every 3-5 seconds before giving the error message "Windows cannot read the data on the disk - either it is corrupted or in a format that Windows cannot recognize."

I have made sure the cables are firmly seated, and as the optical drives were not touched, they are still set up in their original configuration of secondary Master and Secondary slave.
My HDD is a single drive on its own cable set as Primary Master.

Any ways to cure this problem, or is it a case of ripping the drives out and starting afresh?

[Panama Red]

Try changing the jumper on your hard drive to Cable Select (CS) if you have an 80 wire IDE cable on the hard drive. If it's a Western Digital drive you may even need to set the jumper for "single drive". WD's can be a bit picky. Check this link for single drive configuration.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....i=&p_topview=1

[colbell]

The jumper is set to Cable select, and the drives are set as master and slave on a non cable select lead.

I've swapped leads, tried them as a different master/slave combo and still no joy.