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Bob Hansen
Hi Group,
I just did a full reformat form my XP CD. Now when I boot, I get the Dell
logo screen and then the message "primary drive not found." If I hit F1 at
that point, It boots into windows no problem. If I go into setup, In "drive
configuration", I see Diskette drive A:,
SATA primary drive.....off.
SATA secondary drive.....off.
Primary master drive.......Hard Drive,
Primary Slave Drive.......unknown device.
Secondary master drive......CD-Rom Device.
Secondary Slave Drive.....CD-Rom Device.
IDE Drive UDMA........on.
Under "hard disk drive sequence" I see: "System bios boot devices"
Boot sequence is: Hard disk drive C: is first.
It does appear to recognize the hard drive as the "primary master drive" and
can see it as a Maxtor 6Y080L.
This machine has 1 hard drive, one partition, 80 gig, a DVD-rom drive and a
CDRW drive.
I hope I've given enough information here and any ideas about getting this
to boot properly will be appreciated.
Bob
I just did a full reformat form my XP CD. Now when I boot, I get the Dell
logo screen and then the message "primary drive not found." If I hit F1 at
that point, It boots into windows no problem. If I go into setup, In "drive
configuration", I see Diskette drive A:,
SATA primary drive.....off.
SATA secondary drive.....off.
Primary master drive.......Hard Drive,
Primary Slave Drive.......unknown device.
Secondary master drive......CD-Rom Device.
Secondary Slave Drive.....CD-Rom Device.
IDE Drive UDMA........on.
Under "hard disk drive sequence" I see: "System bios boot devices"
Boot sequence is: Hard disk drive C: is first.
It does appear to recognize the hard drive as the "primary master drive" and
can see it as a Maxtor 6Y080L.
This machine has 1 hard drive, one partition, 80 gig, a DVD-rom drive and a
CDRW drive.
I hope I've given enough information here and any ideas about getting this
to boot properly will be appreciated.
Bob