Primary Slave Drive Fails

Hey all, hoping yo ucan help me out.

On Startup, my pc displays

"Primary Slave Drive Fails" press f1 to continue

so i continue to windows,

and its recocgnises my hard drive, and i can still put files on it, play games from it ect, i replaced the IDE cable and it still says the same thing

My 2 hard drives are on the same cable, master pluged to the middle IDE plug and the slave on the last IDE plus.


iv ran disc checks, defrags, format stills says the same thing, both hard drives are maxtor.

 

May be an indication that your BIOS is having a tough time with your slave drive and can be caused by a few different things, including a drive overlay or the drive geometry marked in a specific sector. A utility like Partition Magic would probably help you identify the specific cause. If it were me, I'd copy everything on that drive to another, FDISK it, reformat and then copy your stuff back. As to cabling - I'm kind of a die-hard - masters always go on the terminating connector and slaves on the intermediate with both set as CS. However, as long as your jumpers are correctly set Master and Slave, it shouldn't make a difference that you've got master in the middle.