I have a Biostar TF560 AM2+ and I have not found a single drive that possibly works. I tried a LITE-ON LH-20A1L-05, wouldn't detect! I've also tried a Plextor 716SA. Both either make my computer lock up or non bootable. The motherboard I have is weird because I have 1xIDE which I have my main harddrive on, and a 4xSATA ports, one which has my second harddrive on (I tried to clone but that wouldn't work).

I originally was going to have my DVD drive on IDE and my cloned drive on SATA but that didn't go as planned, so I"m trying to get a SATA DVD burner...

I'm sure many have experienced this problem with onboard SATA, more specifically, biostar or nforce 560 chipsets. I don't want to buy yet another DVD burner that will not work. Any suggestions?

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You may not be able to have the IDE drive as an enabled boot device AND a SATA DVD set up in BIOS and working properly. Read here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] =-1&Page=2

You may have to install your OS on a SATA HD and loose the IDE HD as a bootable drive with your OS if you want to use a SATA DVD drive on your system. HTH.

Thats what I wanted to but what I went through made me just say screw it. After not being able to clone my old drive I said screw it and I did a FRESH install on my new drive. But it was being read as D:\ and I didn't want it to cause problems so I used partition magic to switch it to C: but then it wouldn't boot up anymore. I was just so extremely frustrated having spent like 2 days trying to figure it all out. Sounds like it could be a problem though.

Honestly, if I could get a way to clone my drive so I can use an IDE DVD burner I'd do it but I already tried multiple approaches and software. I have sooooo much stuff on my computer it would be ridiculous to do a fresh install unless ABSOLUTELY necessary =(

Well, you could copy all your important files to disc or removable drive. Keep the IDE drive the way it is with OS, etc., but remove it from the computer. Do a fresh install on a new SATA drive. Put your important files back on the new install.

The problems that are occuring with the OP's computer mirror the problems I had when updating my old computer. The SATA didn't want to play nice with the IDE. So, I essentially did what you suggest, Badge, and everything works nicely again. I didn't physically remove the IDE hard drive, but left it in place so I can do a quick change of the power lines between the IDE and the SATA drives, therefore allowing me easy access to the files on the IDE hard drive if I need them. Mainly, I use SATA drives together and IDE drives together and everything works right.

Just a slightly different way of tackling the problem.

I use a SATA DVD player just fine, but I don't have anything attached to the IDE controller. That is an ASUS 965 board. One very important thing to remember is to be sure to attach your SATA DVD to one of the 'common' SATA MB headers. Do Not plug it into one of the 'special' RAID controllers. I think OP's problem is BIOS related. Thing is, I don't own the board and do not know exactly what to tell him. Only to loose the IDE boot drive and use a SATA drive for both OS and DVD setuo.

Yeah, it just kind of sucks cause a lot of my important files are recording sessions and compositions. It's so much software and new CD keys I have to get and a ridiculous amount of drivers. I suppose I could try it again but if I take my IDE drive out, and reinstall windows on my SATA (not to mention I have bioshock saved on my SATA HDD since I planned to get a SATA DVD drive anyway), I would HOPE that it would read as drive C:, but everything else I'd have to copy from my IDE back onto my SATA. It sucks that I can't just do a copy paste kind of deal but yeah... I dont know what to do... = / I wish I could get a working SATA DVD drive thats all I want and I'm cool. hah

I agree that it might be BIOS related. If its an older board, such as the one I'm using in my old computer, the BIOS just doesn't handle the changes well. I'm using an ASUS SATA DVD player/recorder in that computer, but it refuses to work if I try to use both it and the IDE based Plextor CD player/recorder. For now I just put up with the troubles. In the next few months I'll be doing an all new build and everything will be SATA from the start.

For the OP; I just thought of a way that might get your files transfered, though its a bit of a hastle. If you can install the IDE drive on another computer, whether a spare one or one belonging to a friend who is willihg to do it, you can do a file transfer from one computer to the other. I haven't done that in a long time, but as I remember you use the "Network Connections" manager. Using that, you can establish a small network between the computers and transfer files from one to the other. You motherboard may already have a NIC in place, as mine does. Otherwise, you may have to buy a NIC card to do this.

Since CD recordables came into use, I've just put everything onto CDs and then use them to transfer the data from one drive to another. Since I back up everything regularly, its never been any extra work for me to transfer the data. Just some more thoughts.

Thanks. What I am thinking of is trying a USB burner. I don't know if those have had more or less problems but USB usually works well and its compatible in most cases. Hell, my external which I run all the time is USB. Maybe that'll be my next option. If all else fails, I'll go completely SATA but that'll be like a weeks project. haha

I wonder if this would work with your SATA DVD unit?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6816220006

I was thinking about that too... For $25, I don't know, I'm really iffy. To me it sounds like more incompatibilities.

Cheaper.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6815124020

I almost tossed an old MB when the Ethernet stopped working. I glad a didn't. Saw a cheap PCI ethernet controller the other day.

Wow. You have really worked trying to solve all this!

Maybe this will help? http://www.satagear.com/SATA-MM-A1_SATA_to_IDE.html