Topic: DVD rewriter

[Jonah]

Ok well it is PrinceofDarkness and for some reason it would not let me on my account so i had to make a new 1 even tho i had posted like 300 posts on the other one.. anyway as i said a while a go i have started pc gaming and i am getting 1 gig of ram in 5 days time as it is my birthday    and i i will be planning on buying a dvd rewriter.. i have 2 more slots in my pc for a drive but i am no good at putting them in!!! will i need more cables? what cables do i plug in? do i have to change my settings when i boot up? will there be enough power in my computer to take it? i have a 350watt power supply and i already have a floppy drive.. a dvd drive.. a cd rewriter and obviously hard drive plugged in.. there is no point in me buying it if it will not work out  :!:  any advice???

thank you

Jonah

[Sandra]

Hi PoD  
The best thing to do is to replace the DVD rom with a DVd writer unless you want to do DVD to DVD copies "on the fly" which isnt a good idea.
Each IDE channel can only support 2 drives so typically you have a primary and a secondary IDE channel so you can have 4 drives.
I think the new mobo that you got was SATA, did you use SATA hard drives or did you stick with IDE ones ?
If you used SATA then you would have some spare capacity on the IDE channels.

You can also buy a PCI IDE controller card which would allow you to add up to 4 more IDE drives but I think you would be better off just swapping the DVD ROM for a writer I suggested earlier  

Ps I will sort out your login problems shortly for you  

Edited to add that it should be sorted now, check your PM for this account for details