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Dell Precision 380 won't recognize SATA DVD-RW drive
I hate that I have to use this thing, but disaster in the form of a thunderstorm struck my XPS 420 quad core, so this is the only computer I've got left. I tried to speed it up by putting a beefier video card in it. In order to do that, I had to change the power supply. What a pain that was. Anyway, the power supply I'm using now doesn't have connectors for IDE/PATA drives. So, I swapped out the stock CD-ROM drive with the DVD-RW drive from my 420, which is SATA. At first I thought it was great. The drive LED worked, and the eject button worked. But then I tried actually using it. Turns out, neither BIOS nor Windows seem to recognize the drive. Is the drive too new, or are there some drivers I can download? I'm running Windows XP service pack 3, by the way.