Drive 1 not found; Serial ATA, SATA-2 Strike f1 to continue F2 for

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I have recently replaced the power supply and mobo on a Dell E310 that was
warrantied from Dell (Parts came from them). No problems so far. I ran the
install disk and reinstalled Windows XP. Again, so far, so good. I did not
reformat, I just reinstalled and have two Windows versions from which to
choose when I boot up. It defaults to the one I want. (I chose "Leave the
current file systme intact")

Everything else works fine now ... except one little thing ... I get this
error each time I boot up the machine. I hit F1 and all works wonderfully.
But I would prefer NOT to get this error! :) I checked in F2, Setup, and
turned off SATA1 and then SATA 2 (different times) to see if that helped.
Nope. I turned off the two IDE drives listed in setup (Boot order area)
(There is only ONE drive in this machine, none are IDE) That made no
difference. I moved the SATA connector from one plug to another on the mobo,
still no difference.

This just HAS to be something simple that I am overlooking. Would anyone
PLEASE tell me what I need to do to make this go away?? Do you think it
something to do with having the 2 Windows on here, and if so, how to I remove
the one I do not want? If that is not it, what am I missing??!!

THANK YOU!!!

Don in Tucson
AizA

AizAizA wrote:

> Thank you for reviewing this post.
>
> I have recently replaced the power supply and mobo on a Dell E310 that was
> warrantied from Dell (Parts came from them). No problems so far. I ran the
> install disk and reinstalled Windows XP. Again, so far, so good. I did not
> reformat, I just reinstalled and have two Windows versions from which to
> choose when I boot up. It defaults to the one I want. (I chose "Leave the
> current file systme intact")
>
> Everything else works fine now ... except one little thing ... I get this
> error each time I boot up the machine. I hit F1 and all works wonderfully.
> But I would prefer NOT to get this error! :) I checked in F2, Setup, and
> turned off SATA1 and then SATA 2 (different times) to see if that helped.
> Nope. I turned off the two IDE drives listed in setup (Boot order area)
> (There is only ONE drive in this machine, none are IDE) That made no
> difference. I moved the SATA connector from one plug to another on the mobo,
> still no difference.
>
> This just HAS to be something simple that I am overlooking. Would anyone
> PLEASE tell me what I need to do to make this go away?? Do you think it
> something to do with having the 2 Windows on here, and if so, how to I remove
> the one I do not want? If that is not it, what am I missing??!!
>
> THANK YOU!!!
>
> Don in Tucson
> AizA
>
>

Ask DELL support. F1 error is issued before Windows comes into play.

[Peterc47]

I had this problem after installing a CD drive to my Dell Optiplex GX620. The hard drive was Drive 0. My son came up with a solution: just swapping the CD to the Drive 0 connection and the hard drive to the Drive 1. All now hunky dory.