i tried to install a secondhand hardrive i bought from ebay but unfortunately cannot get it to work. i have a 40gb drive installed already and tried to install a maxtor diamondmax hard drive as the slave on the same ide channel. i set the bios to auto detect but first of all would not recognise it, then when windows booted it came back with the "secondary harddrive error". i tried both the slave and cable select jumper settings but the diagram on the hdd is a bit confusing. maxblast 4 would not recognise it, but im not sure i was using the right on as when i booted from the floppy it said "maxblast has detected a version of windows - due u wish to continue anyway. i am not 100% certain that the drive works as the seller has a few bad comments for selling broken stuff but it was cheap and i dont want to throw it untill im certain its kaput any1? ps, when xp was detecting it on startup and giving this error it seemed to freeze for about a minute and then not load up xp at all, just loop
if the bios is having trouble detecting the drive than the problem is with the drive. disconnect your c:drive temporarily so can use the diagnostics disk on the new drive. don't set the drive as cable select.
