Sata DVD, Sata HDD and Pata DVD

My Sata DVD drive suddenly stopped responding. The control light is
permanently on but the drive can't be opened (neither on the drive itself nor
via driveletter rightclick - eject). No DVD is in the drive.
Before this problem started I noticed that during boot my Sata HDD is only
listed as '1: ' (not as it used to be when I still had IDE where the drive
was listed by it's number, like ST xxxxxxx), listed as '2: ' was the Pioneer
DVR 112 (Pata) but the Asus DVD RW was not listed at all. It did exist in
Device Manager though and worked OK until an hour ago.
Are there things to consider with this configuration that I may not have
considered (being completely new to the wonderful world of SATA - and PATA
for that matter)?

System Info: Windows XP Pro SP2, Intel DX38BT, Intel Core2 2,66 - 1333, DDR
3 - 1333 1GB, nVidia GeForce 6800 XT, motherboard own sound (IDT), HDD 80 GB
in 2 partitions with approx. 60 % free on each of them.

sgopus
Mon Mar 17 15:14:21 PDT 2008

Sounds like the drive failed.

"Wish I was diving" wrote:

> My Sata DVD drive suddenly stopped responding. The control light is
> permanently on but the drive can't be opened (neither on the drive itself nor
> via driveletter rightclick - eject). No DVD is in the drive.
> Before this problem started I noticed that during boot my Sata HDD is only
> listed as '1: ' (not as it used to be when I still had IDE where the drive
> was listed by it's number, like ST xxxxxxx), listed as '2: ' was the Pioneer
> DVR 112 (Pata) but the Asus DVD RW was not listed at all. It did exist in
> Device Manager though and worked OK until an hour ago.
> Are there things to consider with this configuration that I may not have
> considered (being completely new to the wonderful world of SATA - and PATA
> for that matter)?
>
> System Info: Windows XP Pro SP2, Intel DX38BT, Intel Core2 2,66 - 1333, DDR
> 3 - 1333 1GB, nVidia GeForce 6800 XT, motherboard own sound (IDT), HDD 80 GB
> in 2 partitions with approx. 60 % free on each of them.

WishIwasdiving
Mon Mar 17 20:48:01 PDT 2008

It sure does. The question is to what extent. May it be recovered or can I
feed it to the dog? Is there anything I can try (I did disconnect the drive,
re-connected on a different Sata plug - still same symptoms though)?

"sgopus" wrote:

> Sounds like the drive failed.
>
> "Wish I was diving" wrote:
>
> > My Sata DVD drive suddenly stopped responding. The control light is
> > permanently on but the drive can't be opened (neither on the drive itself nor
> > via driveletter rightclick - eject). No DVD is in the drive.
> > Before this problem started I noticed that during boot my Sata HDD is only
> > listed as '1: ' (not as it used to be when I still had IDE where the drive
> > was listed by it's number, like ST xxxxxxx), listed as '2: ' was the Pioneer
> > DVR 112 (Pata) but the Asus DVD RW was not listed at all. It did exist in
> > Device Manager though and worked OK until an hour ago.
> > Are there things to consider with this configuration that I may not have
> > considered (being completely new to the wonderful world of SATA - and PATA
> > for that matter)?
> >
> > System Info: Windows XP Pro SP2, Intel DX38BT, Intel Core2 2,66 - 1333, DDR
> > 3 - 1333 1GB, nVidia GeForce 6800 XT, motherboard own sound (IDT), HDD 80 GB
> > in 2 partitions with approx. 60 % free on each of them.