Primary Hard Disk 1 not found

porschetr

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I have a Dell Dimension 8100.

Recently I removed the slave drive and formatted the master drive with new Windows. Since then, Dell screen at start up stays long then "Primary Hard Disk 1 not found" message comes up on a black screen.

I have a Maxtor harddrive (jumper set to "cable select" and also tried "Primary") connected to grey end cable.

I also installed a newer version bios.

Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks.

I've been searching and looks like it happens to many Dell computers.