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much more. Create Account How it Works Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. Error auto-sensing secondary master hard disk drive Started by carrottop , hard disk security sata port 0 May 07 2009 12:52 PM Please log in to reply #1 carrottop Posted 07 May 2009 - 12:52 PM carrottop New Member Member 2 posts The issues with my computer all started after an attempted BIOS update. I did use my Dell ID tag to obtain the proper download for my system. The next time I powered up my computer, I recevied the error message: Error auto-sensing secondary master hard disk drive. Sometimes it would not boot and error auto sensing secondary master hard drive dell other times it would boot and load Windows. I wrote to a Dell tech and he told me to reseat my memory. I have also removed and reinstalled the battery and removed all cables with the exception of the keyboard and monitor. It continued to repeat the above error message and would not load. Yesterday I powered it up to copy the error message for you and to my surprise it booted and loaded Windows. I had no problem with any of the operations of Windows. Now that I have shut it down, when I power it up it is repeating the error message and will not load Windows. I have lights 1,2 and 3 lit on the front panel of the computer with one beep prior to the error message. Help! 0 Advertisements #2 Neil Jones Posted 07 May 2009 - 04:51 PM Neil Jones Member 5k Member 8,476 posts Go into the BIOS. Depending on the type of Dell you have there's either a big string of menus down the left hand side (dark blue screen) or a load of "Press Enter" options on a grey screen. Somewhere in one of these menus will be the hard drive options, and one of the entries will be either "Unknown Device" or "No drive present" or something like that. Need to change it's detection type from Auto to None. Withou
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Storage Last response: 3 February 2012 00:21 in Storage Share antispam246 3 error auto-sensing internal hard disk drive December 2010 20:15:43 I have a Dell Dimension 5150. It's been running with 2 SATA HDD's with a dual boot
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system for 5 years without issue. Both HDD's are the same WD Caviar Blue / SE16 320GB 16MB Cache WD3200KS The Primary Drive has 2 Partitions 1) C: Win XP (Primary http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/238197-error-auto-sensing-secondary-master-hard-disk-drive/ Boot) 2) D: Applications (storage) Secondary HDD has 2 Partitions 1) X: Win 7 Boot 2) Y: Storage About 3 weeks ago I started getting odd problems with the secondary HDD. My PC was randomly freezing up or slowing down when attempting to access this drive in XP. Eventually it just stopped being recognized in XP altogether. Next, my PC wouldn't even boot. I'd http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/264385-32-secondary-sata-drive-longer-detected receive the message "No boot device available". After various tinkering, I could get the primary HDD with XP to boot without issues by disabling the secondary SATA port (which 2ns SATA Drive was attached to) in BIOS. When this was turned off the primary HDD booted without issue and I could access XP. Obviously with the secondary SATA port disabled I couldn't reach the secondary HDD to test it. Again, randomly, I found sometimes when renabling the secondary port in BIOS i could get into XP and see the secondary HDD but eventually it would freeze/crash the system, so I would have to disable it again. Now I'm at a point where I can not enable it at all without the system crashing. Furthest I can get with the secondary port enabled is to the win XP boot logo, then it freezes. There is obviously ZERO problems with the primary HDD. The problem must lie with either the secondary HDD or the secondary SATA port or ??? When I try to enable the secondary SATA drive in BIOS this is what I receive when saving and rebooting from BIOS "Er
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