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It gets worse - Primary Drive 1 not found hit F1
BaileyB
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Ok after not getting my ram to work, see other thread 
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I had to tkae out my 2nd hard drive so at the moment i left that out.
Now i get an error with or without it being in.
Primary Drive 1 not found Strike F! to cont or hit F2 to bios.
Whats happing with my machine today!
Also i have searched this and most say my HDD is fryed but it cannot be as i'm using it fine now and have checked all cables IDE etc
.I had to tkae out my 2nd hard drive so at the moment i left that out.
Now i get an error with or without it being in.
Primary Drive 1 not found Strike F! to cont or hit F2 to bios.
Whats happing with my machine today!
Also i have searched this and most say my HDD is fryed but it cannot be as i'm using it fine now and have checked all cables IDE etc
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Have you got the right drive in also did you change any setings on the back for example you have not change the hard drive to slaveHi, we’ve had to remove your signature. If you’re not sure why please read the forum rules or email the forum team if you’re still unsure - MSE ForumTeam0
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Stick the drive back in and all will be ok. Thsi is the drive with the op system on and without that its dead in the water
I have nothing better to do!!!!0 -
The main drive has always been in. And thats all whats in atm i took my slave drive out.
The main HDD is set to and has always been set to select.
It still happens now and once i hit F1 it boots up to windows like normal. But i have to hit F1 all the time which is not right.0 -
Disable the detection for the second disk in the bios, or put the drive back inEver get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:0
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There is only 1 drive in there now the main one with windows xp on it.0
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disable the detection in the biosEver get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:0
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the machine might be looking for the removed hdd first , it then looks for the second as configured , doesnt matter which has the os on as it will just skip the first and boot from the second , are both hdd's set to master.
if you have a little nic out of the ide cables then just select everything to cs.0 -
You need to set Disk 1 to either Not-fitted or Auto-detect in the BIOS. For the IDE bus first (primary) channel, the master disk is normally Disk 0 and slave disk is Disk 1.
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TOG604!0 -
Ok guys starting to get on my nerves now lol
The main HDD was set to auto so changed it to off and that did not even load up.
And still here now.
I only have the main drive installed atm. All cables are fine and intact0 -
If the drive is not detected by the BIOS, it will not load up! Do you have any jumpers on the drive? i.e. master.:doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:0
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