Greetings to you all.
So, this evening I decide to go ahead and dissect the enormous amount of bloatware from Dell's install on my 9300 by performing a clean install of windows xp. I got all the drivers from Dell and various people on this forum (thank you to all), read on how to do this thing (I'm relatively new to reinstalling), and decided to do it tonight.
What I did:
Booted by CD, deleted all partitions, made single new partition (except some 8 MB unpartitioned piece of data would not lump into my new partition), and all went well. Reinstalled everything and everything works. The catch is the following: Everytime I boot up the system, it brings up a screen showing two "Windows XP professional" systems that I have the choice of booting between. The one takes me to my new, clean install that works flawlessly. When I click on the other identical link, it says the following:
"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."
So, this is confusing to me and very annoying because this thing comes up every boot asking me to pick between one system that works and one that appears to be some sort of broken path to the previous install or something...? Anyway, while I'm looking into this further with my puny computer knowledge, I was hoping to throw this out to the gurus out there in hopes that one of you might have some experience with this. Does it have anything to do with that 8 MB portion that would not become part of my single partition? Any advice would be helpful!
Thank you in advance!
So, this evening I decide to go ahead and dissect the enormous amount of bloatware from Dell's install on my 9300 by performing a clean install of windows xp. I got all the drivers from Dell and various people on this forum (thank you to all), read on how to do this thing (I'm relatively new to reinstalling), and decided to do it tonight.
What I did:
Booted by CD, deleted all partitions, made single new partition (except some 8 MB unpartitioned piece of data would not lump into my new partition), and all went well. Reinstalled everything and everything works. The catch is the following: Everytime I boot up the system, it brings up a screen showing two "Windows XP professional" systems that I have the choice of booting between. The one takes me to my new, clean install that works flawlessly. When I click on the other identical link, it says the following:
"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."
So, this is confusing to me and very annoying because this thing comes up every boot asking me to pick between one system that works and one that appears to be some sort of broken path to the previous install or something...? Anyway, while I'm looking into this further with my puny computer knowledge, I was hoping to throw this out to the gurus out there in hopes that one of you might have some experience with this. Does it have anything to do with that 8 MB portion that would not become part of my single partition? Any advice would be helpful!
Thank you in advance!
