Master Boot Record Error - then works?

Hi.

I have just added a second hard drive to a HP Pavillion 400.
It was set up as one hdd as primary master and both optical devices as secondary master and slave.
When I added the second hdd I changed it to both hdd's as masters with the optical drives as slaves on both IDE channels.
It was working fine, but now when I boot it I get 'Master Boot Record Error - press a key' coming up - once i press a key it boots up normally.
I have used the recovery console to write a new mbr but this had made no difference
Anyone got any ideas?

thanks. Spotta

 

I agree with Pete. Normally a Burner likes to be a Master. With that it's not usually possible to make the cabling work easily for the second HDD without placing it as a slave under the other HDD. Works well for me that way.

 

now that was a quick reply!
Will try it now.

but I thought it was preferable to have hdd as masters and optical drives as slaves - no?