I have a computer that I have just reformatted and plan to install Win98SE on it. Before the reformat, I had issues with a floppy drive fail (40) and Secondary slave hard disk fail. Google returns on this error tell me that POST detects an error in the secondary slave IDE hard disk. All well and good, but what does this mean to me in terms of correcting the error?
I changed the floppy drive cable and fixed that error, but I cannot think how to deal with the hard disk fail error. Would different cable fix that too, or is this a BIOS problem (which is what I think, but I don't really know how to address it, if so. Or is it something else entirely. The computer originally came from the factory with a partitioned hard drive, obviously named C and D. When I reformatted this machine some time ago due to unsolvable errors, I eliminated the partition, since I don't feel the need for them, as this machine is going to serve as simple data storage on my home network. I don't plan on even installing anything other than an operating system and the few things needed to make the network run. Does this secondary slave error refer to the drive D that no longer exists? If this is the case, how to I stop the thing from looking for drive D?
Any help you guys can offer will be appreciated.