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Primary drive 1 not found...
I used to have 2 EIDE hard drives in one of our computers (a DELL Dimension 3000) with Windows XP installed on the Master drive C: and Windows 7 installed on the Slave D:
At some point I decided to get rid of XP and re-install W7 on the C: drive, carrying over all important settings from D:, and eventually removing the D: drive to continue with only C:
I never had an issue with booting the machine, but as soon as I would remove the D: drive, thus jumpering the C: drive to "Cable select", the computer would stop at the BIOS logo at any start for like half a minute, and then popping the notorious "Primary drive 1 not found" screen, with the options to strike either the F1 or F2 key.
Once I strike F1 the PC boots normally into W7, and in the BIOS the drive (a WD800JB) is always being recognized correctly.
Again, it did not do that before when the only physical difference was that I ran a slave drive along with it. The master was the identical WD800JB !
Anyone with ideas? It is at least annoying and I'd always like to understand such issues rather than just living with it.