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Primary channel: drive not found

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mike828

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May 31, 2003
I have the GA-8INXP board. I can't boot to XP. During the boot process, I get 2 messages. Primary channel: drive not found and Secondary channel: drive not found.

In the bios, all my drives show up. Anyone know what the problem is?
 
Does your board have onboard raid? If so, I would guess that's what giving you the drive not found messages. Go into the bios and make sure that your hard drive is set to boot first (or after cdrom/floppy and no disks in eithe rof those, etc). It may be labeled IDE0 or IDE1, or something along those lines.
 
Have you peformed a 'clean' reformat and reinstall of Windows?

Sounds like windows dosen't recognise the IDE controllers due to the mobo being upgraded and WIndows not being reinstalled on a clean reformat.
 
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