Primary Drive 1 Not Found message on boot????

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"Dave Cobb" <dpcprsto@ilhawaii.net> wrote in message
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> My wife's 4600 displays this message now upon boot up, after an
> unsuccessful attempt to install a SATA drive. "Primary Drive 1 not found.
> Press F1 to continue, Press F2 to enter setup utility."
> It now requires one to physically press the F1 key to continue the
> boot sequence, which certainly wasn't required before the failed
> installation. Any idea on how to clear this up and return the computer to
> booting up without operator intervention????
>
> Mahalo,
> Dave
>


Yep. F2 into BIOS.

http://support.dell.com/support/ed [...] tm#1138127

Arrow down to SATA Primary Drive 1 and press enter. Turn the drive off by
using the spacebar (If I remember right).

You said "unsuccessful attempt". Is the SATA drive still in the machine and
connected?


Stew

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the BIOS go into the bios and then make sure cap lock scroll lock and
number lock are all ON then press in this order Alt and E keys, Alt and F
keys and finally Alt and B keys holding down the alt B Keys untill the
system reboots its self , it will then do an automatic IDE configuration and
your message should dissapear
"Paul Knudsen" <HughG@dodgeit.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:22:41 GMT, "Dave Cobb" <dpcprsto@ilhawaii.net>
> wrote:
>
>> My wife's 4600 displays this message now upon boot up, after an
>>unsuccessful attempt to install a SATA drive. "Primary Drive 1 not found.
>>Press F1 to continue, Press F2 to enter setup utility."
>> It now requires one to physically press the F1 key to continue the
>> boot
>>sequence, which certainly wasn't required before the failed installation.
>>Any idea on how to clear this up and return the computer to booting up
>>without operator intervention????
>>
>>Mahalo,
>>Dave
>>
> Just curious: why was installing the SATA drive "unsuccessful"? I
> recently installed one, but found it would not play nice with the
> original IDE drive. So I took out the original and bought a USB case
> to run it from. Had to reinstall XP of course. My point is, you
> oughtn't to give up on SATA, you'll love the faster speed.
> --
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>

To all who may still be having this problem I just wanted to let you know that I found the answer. After having my computer run just fine for years I had this same problem begin and was extremely upset. I went to the manufactor of my computer and typed in what the problem was (DELL) and they had the answer right there. I went into the setup utility and found that it was looking for another drive that wasn't there. I disabled those drives and now my computer started up without any problems at all. I have found so many people saying all the worse when actually it was a simple problem to fix. My computer was looking for a floppy drive and a slave when it never came with a floppy and the slave has been out of it for years. I don't know how a floppy became enabled but I am not worrying myself over it. I will admit some of the responses I read had me in such fear as my husband bought this for me for xmas in 2004 and he has passed several months ago and I didn't want to loose my computer because it meant so much to me when he surprised me. I didn't need to buy a bunch of stuff all I needed to do was go to the maker of my PC and ask the forum there and now it's running GREAT !!!!