Well, my computer is not reading either of those devices at the same time. It will either read one or the other, sometimes I can get the CD Drive to work but at the same time the Hard Drive is not being detected, Vice versa when I can make it detect the hard drive and not the cd-rom. I do not know what the problem is, can anyone help me? has anyone have any of the same problems?

My guess is that it could either be the power supply or the cables??? Because I unhooked it from the CD ROM drive; and left the cable and power supply cable hooked up to the Hard Drive and it could read the hard drive. But when I do the same for the CD ROM where I left the cables hooked up to the CD ROM drive and not the Hard Drive, it would not read the CD ROM.

I have no clue what it is, I have been trying to get it to work for two days now and I am making no progress. I would really appreciate the help thanks!

I'm guessing both are IDE Cabled?

If so, I'd get a new cable (one for whichever isnt working) and try that...

You said you already switched them around though so I doubt that will do much

It's possible your motherboard is defective as well...

If you go My PCHF on the left hand bar on the Forum, you can edit your data, click on Edit Options, and scroll til you see where you can type in your system specs and go ahead and enter them there

It will help in this case and certainly in the future

btw welcome to PCHF

Welcome to PCHF On the hard drive and cd rom you will need to set the hard drive as a master and the cd rom as a slave you can set this via the jumper switches in the back of the drives picture below. The picture is an example you settings may vary it will usually have the setting written on the drives.

Yes I have checked this also, however, I have my CD ROM to master and my hard drive is also to master. Now is that the correct way... or should it not matter? Because I have left it like that and it worked fine before but now I do not know what happened.

If the dirves are on seperate ide cables the can both be set as a master but you should have the hard drive pluged into the primary ide port and the cd rom in the secondary ide port. But if both drives are on 1 ide cable you will need to set the hard drive as the master and set the cd rom as a slave. If you are having compatiblitity/configuration issue with the drives I would recommend running them on seperate ide cables