[jazz7188]

HI,

I have been facing this problem for a long time now...

My PC is currently working fine with a single drive connected to it which is an 80GB HD, but whenever I try connecting more than 1 driver it gives me problems. So I have disconnected the floppy drive as well as the DVD drive. The 80GB HD is the only thing connected. I tried connecting a 160GB HD which I just purchased, but it gave me a disk read error & after trying for hours the computer finally started up without detecting the 160GB HD. And when I try connecting the DVD drive it just doesn't work or the PC doesn't start up giving a disk read error again. I have already had to replace the DVD drive & the HD once due to the same problem, so the ones that I have got right now are new & I am sure there is nothing wrong with any of these. I have also attached the recent minidump file when I tried connecting the DVD drive...Please help!! Thanks in advance!!

[etaf]

more detail
Make and model of the PC
Motherboard info would be useful to

Clarify
1) Harddrive connected to machine 80GBs works
if you connect a
2) floppy drive or
3) DVD Drive or
4) another Harddrive (160GB) it does not detect them
detect means within the BIOS

correct?
If not please be as specific as possible - also do not write everything in one paragraph