Windows occasionally refuses to boot

[flowerpower]

I started having this problem after reinstalling XP several days ago. I would get this message before booting into Windows: Windows could not start becauwse of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from selected boot disc. Check boot path and disk hardware. Refer to windows and hardware manuals or something like that. I have to hit the reset button to try again and after that it boots fine. This only happened 2 times, but i am concerned, i ran checks on the main hard disk using chkdsk and WD Data lifeguard tool but found no errors. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?

 

[raybay]

Run Windows boot once more from the R or Repair mode. That will usually straighten things out.

 

[Tedster]

run crap cleaner registry repair.

also check your minidumps...

read: https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic31341.html

 

[flowerpower]

ok, i'll start with CCleaner and minidumps, see if that helps.

Edit: By the way, i forgot to mention that during the Windows install the Windows Installer told me to create a separate 8 MB partition on my 2nd hard drive to store some windows files. I did this this because there was no way around it and now i have another hard drive on my pc, local disk I: in addition to C: and D:. There are files on this newly created disk but i cannot see them. I wonder why windows made me create this partition?