Running a mongrel PC: Pentium 4 2.8 on a new Intel board, 512 Mb Ram, a pair
of IDE HDDs, Creative Ti4600 graphics card, SCSI CDR, running XP Pro with
all the updates on one HDD and Windows 98se on the other, letting Windows
handle the dual boot.
Occasionally when I'm doing a cold boot (at a guess about 20% of the time) I
get an error message just after the POST and I've selected XP as the OS into
which I want to boot. Rather than going to the XP loading screen I get an
error as follows:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration
problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk
hardware.Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk
configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional
information.
If I reset the computer (or Ctrl-Alt-Del), the machine boots up fine - I
can't think of any occasion when I've had this error message twice in a row.
I can see no hardware faults, error messages or conflicts from within
Windows XP, so I'm at a bit of a loss. Does anyone have any ideas?
TIA
