I replaced the CMOS battery today and all is well. Amazing how such a simple and inexpensive fix ended almost two years of annoyance. I feel bad for yelling at the hard drive all this time. Thank...

I have a Dell Dimension 4600 for about five years now. For the last 18 months or so whenever we booted up the computer, it would give the error message Primary Drive not found Press F1 to continue. ...