I did not see a response, so I will try to help. Boot from your XP CD and go
to Recovery Console mode. You  can then run CHKDSK, FIXBOOT, or FIXMBR
utilities if that is needed. You may also want to check your CMOS
configuration settings just in case. It sounds like your secondary master
hard drive is not being recognized for some reason. Is you main install on a
secondary IDE channel?

Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> I need some help with this I have no clue what to do.
> A few months back I installed windows XP. And it was
> started to act all funny so I tried to reinstall it.
> Now I get this error massage. ( sec master drive ATAPI
> incompatible) press F1 to resume then it tells me
> invalided boot file C:windows now I can't even get
> windows to start. Thanks for your help Jason

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