secondary driver missing

folks, something of a neophyte here, but here goes
inexplicably, during startup my home computer delivers a text message that
"secondary drivers" are missing. it doesn't specificy which secondary
drivers. it does say, in another message during startup, that it can't find
"secondary drivers 0, 1."
the system does load up when i hit f1 to continue, but the whole startup
process is now slowed. when i hit f2 to the startup menu, and check the hard
drives, it says "off," (if i recall) for secondary master and slave drives.
when i try to change it auto, it doesn't recognize the change.

any clues? again, I'm not tech savvy, so hunting around in obscure files
makes me uncomfortable, and so does making elaborate changes to the
underlying files.
you may also message me at caffrey.RemoveThis@globe.com
thank you
andrew caffrey

Andrew

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the
System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
Information Reports please. Indicate which also appear in a previous
boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using copy
and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further
information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.




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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Andrew Caffrey wrote:
> folks, something of a neophyte here, but here goes
> inexplicably, during startup my home computer delivers a text message
> that "secondary drivers" are missing. it doesn't specificy which
> secondary drivers. it does say, in another message during startup,
> that it can't find "secondary drivers 0, 1."
> the system does load up when i hit f1 to continue, but the whole
> startup process is now slowed. when i hit f2 to the startup menu, and
> check the hard drives, it says "off," (if i recall) for secondary
> master and slave drives. when i try to change it auto, it doesn't
> recognize the change.
>
> any clues? again, I'm not tech savvy, so hunting around in obscure
> files makes me uncomfortable, and so does making elaborate changes to
> the underlying files.
> you may also message me at caffrey.RemoveThis@globe.com
> thank you
> andrew caffrey