Has anyone had this problem on startup

[Guest]

Drive 2 not found: Paralell ATA, PATA-O (PRI IDE Master) strike the f1 key to
continue, f2 to run the setup utility

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Drive 2 not found: Paralell ATA, PATA-O (PRI IDE Master) strike the f1 key to
continue, f2 to run the setup utility

drive died

 

[Curt Christianson]

Grumpy,

Where have you been lately? I haven't seen you around.

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Curt

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| > Drive 2 not found: Paralell ATA, PATA-O (PRI IDE Master) strike the f1
key to
| > continue, f2 to run the setup utility
|
| drive died
|

 

[Malke]

Drive 2 not found: Paralell ATA, PATA-O (PRI IDE Master) strike the f1 key to
continue, f2 to run the setup utility

Well of course. Either your hard drive has died, the cable is bad, the
motherboard connector is bad, power supply has failed, or a combination
of all of the foregoing.

Since you are getting the message before the operating system has loaded
- and it can't load because the drive containing it is missing - this is
hardware problem and has nothing to do with Windows.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

Standard caveat: Testing hardware failures often involves swapping out
suspected parts with known-good parts. If you can't do the testing
yourself and/or are uncomfortable opening your computer, take the
machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local
equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad).


Malke

 

[Ron Badour]

Make sure the ribbon and power cables are plugged in tight at both ends.