Primary master hd failed primary slave hd failed at boot

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Primary master hd failed primary slave hd failed at boot

#1 Post by _MegadetH_ »

Hi! After removing some dust inside my old desktop pc, I booted pc and I got this error message Primary master hd failed, Primary slave hd failed. Press F1 to skip. If I press F1 and I run puppy from cd the system and hard disks works without problems.
I though I was a problem of cable connection, but It checked they are a well connected.

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#2 Post by rjbrewer »

The hd failure message comes from the bios, before the
operating system tries to load.
Running the live cd is using ram, not the hard drives.

Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs

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