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I have an old computer I am going to use again. I took one of the 2
harddrives, the cd, and 3.5 floppy out for my new computer when I put it
together and formated the harddrive I left in. When I put the CD and floppy
back in. (I beleived to the correct cables.) The comp was giving the errors:
Sec Slave HDD Error
Pri Slave Drive - ATAPI Incompatable
Hit F1 to continue
So I put the CD and Harddrive on the same cable with the Harddrive as the
master and CD as the slave and the "Pri Slave Drive" error went away.
Now I want to get rid of the "Sec Slave HDD Error" There is no other
harddrive anymore (I guess that is what HDD means). Whenever I try and get
into setup it asks for "current password" but I never gave it a password to
beginwith so I can't get into setup.
So how do I get rid of that error? Plus how do I get into setup?
The second problem is that when I hit F1 and continue it searches for a boot
disk, can't find one and asks me to inset one. When I do (I've tried 98 and
98SE) it says it is an invalid system disk. I have even tried just inserting
the 98 CD by itself. HELP! How do I get it to see the disk as a system disk,
as it clearly is so I can reinstall windows?
I have an old computer I am going to use again. I took one of the 2
harddrives, the cd, and 3.5 floppy out for my new computer when I put it
together and formated the harddrive I left in. When I put the CD and floppy
back in. (I beleived to the correct cables.) The comp was giving the errors:
Sec Slave HDD Error
Pri Slave Drive - ATAPI Incompatable
Hit F1 to continue
So I put the CD and Harddrive on the same cable with the Harddrive as the
master and CD as the slave and the "Pri Slave Drive" error went away.
Now I want to get rid of the "Sec Slave HDD Error" There is no other
harddrive anymore (I guess that is what HDD means). Whenever I try and get
into setup it asks for "current password" but I never gave it a password to
beginwith so I can't get into setup.
So how do I get rid of that error? Plus how do I get into setup?
The second problem is that when I hit F1 and continue it searches for a boot
disk, can't find one and asks me to inset one. When I do (I've tried 98 and
98SE) it says it is an invalid system disk. I have even tried just inserting
the 98 CD by itself. HELP! How do I get it to see the disk as a system disk,
as it clearly is so I can reinstall windows?