Try plugging the SATA plug into a different port on the motherboard, or get a SATA controller, or attach off USB in an adapter perhaps. Did you install Win7 originally, if not perhaps they installed via IDE drive?
Wonder if a Linux Live CD could find it...probably not if the BIOS didn't.
Joan in Reno
--- On Fri, 12/2/11, Dave <dslj57@btinternet.com> wrote:
From: Dave <dslj57@btinternet.com>
Subject: [Simply Computers] DVD burner not detected in BIOS
To: simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, December 2, 2011, 5:04 PM
Hi all! I had a few problem with my PC last week so I ran my OS disc to sort them all out in one go and turned to an older back up PC I have to use for some stuff. Bad news, the back up computer chose this particular time to pack in so I decided to run the OS disc on that one too, only the DVD drive doesn't work on it and I took the Sata cables from it and hooked them up to the DVD on the other PC - kind of like using a second vehicle to jump start the first.
I finally got a fresh OS on my back up computer, but couldn't get the OS disc to run on the first computer and in bios the DVD drive was "not detected". I reckoned I must have damaged something by plugging and unplugging the Sata cables a few times, so I ordered a new DVD rewriter and it arrived today and even with the new DVD installed I can't get the OS disc to run and bios still has it "not detected". Any idea how I could run a fresh copy? I'm trying to get windows 7 on a TrendSonic PC.
Thanks in anticipation of your help,
Dave.
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