computer sat for a couple of years, I reinstalled the software from the recovery disks, it seamed to be working then a couple of days later it displayed the above error. It is a sony vaio desktop with xp on it and american mega trends bios.
"primary master hard disk error" is usually caused by OS cdead hard disk recoveryorruption or a bad hard drive (bad sectors or dead drive).
actually, yes -- the cmos battery supplies the bios with power required for it to remember where to find the drivers for the mobo and hard drive. if either the mobo or hdd requires a special driver and the BIOS can't find it, the HDD can report errodead hard disk recoveryr. [example -- early SATA mobos needed a driver. so do RAID array mobos, and (for the time) extra large HDDs.]
the typical button battery is dirt cheap, too ... under 5 usd. you can even get 'em at Wal-Mart.
Not an chance. You need to either reinstall your OS or replace your hard drive.
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