"Lasse Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When booting Windows XP I get the following message: "Secondary IDE channel >no 80 conductor cable installed". >Can anyone explain what this actually means, possible cause and effects? > >Would it have anything to do with a number of programs starting to freeze on >me, like the ACDSee, RegCleaner and Windows "Search"-program?
BTW: My recommendation would to be to *hope* for the best (bad IDE cable) but *prepare* for the worst (bad hard drive): START BACKING UP YOUR FILES NOW.
