I just installed Windows 8 consumer preview on a second hard drive. Runs great, only problem is that it won't recognize the slave dvd drive. The first one works fine. In XP both work fine (when I boot with the old drive). I make the second one the Master drive and then it works fine (slave still doesn't work). BIOS recognizes both on start up. Not showing up in device manager to update drivers, yada yada.

Any one with any bright ideas are welcome. Snide comments, too at this point.

This sounds similar to your problem

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... 6a5?auth=1

1. Run Command Prompt as an Administrator. Type cmd in Windows 8 Metro UI and press cltr+shift+enter



2. Type following and say enter



reg.exe add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0" /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001



3. Reboot the system



4. Verify if the problem has been resolved.




http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&clie ... 34&bih=634

I will try this out and let you know what the outcome was.