XP pro BSOD reboot

[Airmack]

Turn on my XP pro pc and it says

Sec slave drive incompatible... I dont have a salve on the sec ide channel so i hit f1 to boot any ways and it goes to windows splash screen does a bsod real fast and restarts.

So I try it again and same thing

I try safe mode, same thing,

Tried to do a restore to a diff time and same thing.

am I hosed?

Granted I dont have the CD cause the school bought us all a single user copy of XP so I cant reformat and install..

[glc]

What is the master drive on the secondary cable? Are you sure you don't have it on the middle connector of a cable select cable jumpered to master? That would be the slave connector.

[Airmack]

iv never replaced the cable.

sec master should be the HD.. or maybe the HD is primary master.

but then my cd burner is its sec/primary master on its own channel