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not found "Primary drive 0 not found, Primary drive 1 not found" Started 10/27/2007 by Len in Gadgets Forum (23 posts) 1 10/27/2007 (10:23 pm) by Len Len (2 Posts) Hi I have a Dell Dimension 4600 Series PC, Bios version A12, Service Tag D46CV51. I've never had a problem with this PC until this morning when I got the error "Primary drive 0 not found, Primary drive 1 not primary drive 1 not found found". No matter what I do, I can't get past this error. I pulled primary boot drive and attached it to my notebook via USB cable and was able to read and retrieve data files, so the drive isn't the problem. I've checked the cables to see if they were loose but still no luck. Can anyone help?? Thanks in advance 2 10/28/2007 (6:48 am) by Nicole George Nicole George (113 Posts) what type HDD is it that you can USB it to your notebook? 3 10/28/2007 (4:19 pm) by Len Len (2 Posts) hear2lern, The HDD is an IDE and I use one of those $20 USB/IDE Adapters (slick little bugger). Also, I found out more since my first post. I disconnected both cables and ran the primary cable to the CD and DVD drives, and the secondary cable to the two HDDs. Now I can see the HDDs and boot successfully but I can't see the CD and DVD drives. It's looking more like the primary cable circuit on the mother board but I'm hoping for a less expensive solution. 4 10/29/2007 (3:48 pm) by Raymond Raymond (16 Posts) Sounds like you many have a bad cable. 5 10/30/2007 (3:51 pm) by awesomeo awesomeo (2229 Posts) Ditto on the bad cable. 6 2/15/2008 (2:10 pm)
"Primary hard disk drive 0 not found" Discussion in 'Hardware' started by burnout, Jan 7, 2006. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. burnout Private E-2 Hi guys, I think I'm sata primary drive unknown device in big trouble, I have a Dell XPS Lap Top Pentium 4HT 3.40GHz and primary drive not found press f1 to continue on boot up it doesn’t see the Hard Drive, it say’s "Primary hard disk drive 0 not found" I took out primary hard disk drive 0 not found dell the single screw removed and reinserted the hard drive hoping it was just a bad connection but no luck, before this problem I could not get the CD/DVD bay to open but I think that is http://www.geek.com/forums/topic/primary-drive-0-not-found-primary-drive-1-not-found/ a separate issue but not sure, this is a big laptop that I use for my work and I move it around allot, I try to be careful but it has gotten banged a couple of times but nothing big, say something equal to like a drop of only 1 inch or so could that be the cause? I make my living with this thing and have allot of stuff in the http://forums.majorgeeks.com/index.php?threads/help-primary-hard-disk-drive-0-not-found.82126/ HD some backed up but some not so what I'm asking is what should I do? Am I screwed? The hard drive is a Hitachi Travelstar model HTS726060M9AT00 60GB 7200RPM ATA/IDE the rest of the info is as follows: BIOS Version: A05 Application CPU: Enabled Level 2 Cash: 1024KB System Memory: 3.4 GHz 1024 MB @ 400 MHz video controller: ATI Radeon 9700 Video Memory: 128 MB Panel Type: 15.4" Wide UXGA Audio Controller: sigmatel 9750 modem Controller: Conexant D480 MDC Primary Hard Drive: None Modular Bay: DVD+/-RW System D-Bay: Not Installed Really appreciate any help, thanks. burnout, Jan 7, 2006 #1 DCO57 Private E-2 Burnout- First isolate the software possibilities. Go into Bios (tap F2 at boot up) and check "Drives". Make sure its enabled.Try resetting the BIOS (turn on all 3 lights:numlock, caps, and scroll, then hit ALT + E, then ALT + F, then ALT + B) it'll reboot automatically. If still no HDD, run system diagnostics (tap F12 and choose "diagnostics") start with "custom tests/ HDD/ confidence test" that a fairly quick test, but you can do a full scale HDD test by just choosing "all tests" under HDD catagory. Or you can use the "Resource CD" that came with the PC, put it in the drive an
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