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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

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Guest Uncle Grumpy
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Re: Has anyone had this problem on startup

 

On Sep 10, 2:08 am, leanne <lea...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> 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

Guest Curt Christianson
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Re: Has anyone had this problem on startup

 

Grumpy,

 

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

 

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"Uncle Grumpy" <pauld1943@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:1189409659.494086.326000@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

| On Sep 10, 2:08 am, leanne <lea...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

| > 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

|

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Re: Has anyone had this problem on startup

 

leanne wrote:

> 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

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Guest Ron Badour
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Re: Has anyone had this problem on startup

 

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

 

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Ron Badour

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"leanne" <leanne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:5A789C64-FEF9-4F0B-8520-AF95487979BB@microsoft.com...

> Drive 2 not found: Paralell ATA, PATA-O (PRI IDE Master) strike the f1 key

> to

> continue, f2 to run the setup utility


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