First of all, let me use someone else's pharse in a post I saw, long time browser, first time poster.
Let me get right to the problem.
I was having a problem with a friends computer. Every time the computer started it would go to a blue screen and state that it could not boot from disk. So I assumed the hard drive crashed on the computer. I went in tried different ways to see if I could go repair installs on the operating system but nothing worked. Eventually, I just had to do a clean install of Windows XP Home (Using Dell Recovery CD) which formatted the drive and reinstalled the operating system. Upon completion I got the following errror:
"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 windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information"
The question is now what can I try to do? Is the hard drive toast? So I attempt to reinstall XP again? Maybe pull the hard drive, install in another computer in attempt to restore data using data recovery software?
My only guess is that the hard drive is in serious trouble but I am open to any suggestions.
Greg
Let me get right to the problem.
I was having a problem with a friends computer. Every time the computer started it would go to a blue screen and state that it could not boot from disk. So I assumed the hard drive crashed on the computer. I went in tried different ways to see if I could go repair installs on the operating system but nothing worked. Eventually, I just had to do a clean install of Windows XP Home (Using Dell Recovery CD) which formatted the drive and reinstalled the operating system. Upon completion I got the following errror:
"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 windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information"
The question is now what can I try to do? Is the hard drive toast? So I attempt to reinstall XP again? Maybe pull the hard drive, install in another computer in attempt to restore data using data recovery software?
My only guess is that the hard drive is in serious trouble but I am open to any suggestions.
Greg