{"id":218,"date":"2004-10-27T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/message-windows-could-not-start-when-booting-windows-nt-2000-xp-2003\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:25:33","slug":"message-windows-could-not-start-when-booting-windows-nt-2000-xp-2003","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/message-windows-could-not-start-when-booting-windows-nt-2000-xp-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Message &#8220;Windows Could Not Start&#8230;&#8221; when Booting Windows NT\/2000\/XP\/2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article addresses the case where you receive the following message when attempting to start Windows NT\/2000\/XP\/2003:<\/p>\r\n  <blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n    <p><strong>Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.<br \/>Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n  <\/blockquote>\r\n  <p>A common cause of this error is that BOOT.INI is pointing to a non-existent&nbsp;partition, rather than the one where Windows is installed.&nbsp; To resolve this issue, please refer to the solution detailed in the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/?p=130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Message &quot;Windows Could not Start Because the Following File is Missing or Corrupt&quot; (NTOSKRNL.EXE or HAL.DLL)<\/a>.<\/p><hr id=\"null\" \/>\r\n  <p>For more information, please refer to the following Microsoft support document:<\/p>\r\n  <p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?kbid=314477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Error Message: Windows Could Not Start Because of a Computer Disk Hardware Configuration Problem<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article addresses the case where you receive the following message when attempting to start Windows NT\/2000\/XP\/2003: 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. A common cause of this error is that BOOT.INI is pointing to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1782],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127,2147,2145,2144,2146],"class_list":["post-218","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-nt-2k-xp-2003","lsvr_kba_tag-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-2003","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-2k","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-nt","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5911,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/218\/revisions\/5911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}