- Sep 8, 2002
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I got a call recently from a friend experiencing a whole host of problems with his 4 year old hard drives. Yep both hard drives yet each one has a different problem (or so I expect).
He says his first drive is producing a whirring or zipping sound.
His second drive is connected to his primary ide bus as a slave. He also has a CD burner set as master on that bus. When he boots, he gets the message HDD Primary Master Failure, press F1 to continue (I don't know the exact quote). When he presses F1 to continue, his system complains resulting in an abort,retry,fail message. This problem seems to be intermediate. Sometimes (not often) he can get his system to boot.
Has anyone experienced these problems? Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks in advance.