New Dvd Drive Not Working

[Topgear]

Hello, I have a medion cybermaxx MD4349 laptop I recently brought a new dvd drive, It is "physically" installed in my laptop but it isnt showing up on the BIOS it says "Secondary master not installed", and it isnt anywhere in my computer either, Any ideas why this is happening? Your help would be much appreciated.

[londonles]

When you say physically installed do you replaced the old drive and put a new one in?

[Topgear]

Yeah Thats What I Meant

[londonles]

Ok did you set the jumpers on the back of the drive it must show as a slave unit for the bios to see it

[Topgear]

Where exactly are the jumpers? Cant see any on the dvd drive at all?

[londonles]

on the back of the drive where the unit plugs in is there not a power plug and a 6/8 pin plug with a small plastic jumper?

[Topgear]

No not that I can see, people I know have mentioned jumpers but it doesnt seem to have any is this possible?

[londonles]

yes it is possible can you tell me the make of the drive please, also have gone in to the bios and looked at the settings to see if the drive select is set to manula or auto?

[Topgear]

Ok, it is an LG GWA-4040N, and I think it is set to Auto- but thats my primary drive which is the hard drive

[londonles]

The bios would normally check for a secondary slave drive make sure your drive settings are correct in the bios, also does the dvd drive light come on power up?

[Topgear]

The dvd light does come on yes, and the BIOS does say that there is a secondary drive but it says it's not installed although the drive seems to be in right

[londonles]

if there are no other physical settings to change or any jumpers to set then i would query whether the drive is faulty then.

[Topgear]

Well at first I got a Sony dvd drive and the same thing happened, so it cant be the drive that is faulty, it's like I need to tell the system it is there but im not sure how to as it isnt anywhere on the computer