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David
I'm experiencing some strange errors when I boot my
machine and I'm wondering if someone can help me. First
off, let me explain something. I bought my PC off the
shelf like it was a demo machine at a store in Bellingham
Washington "Crazy Prices" (No joke!). It didn't come in a
box, just the PC and some manual. Great price, no
warranty. It's worked fine, other than being incredibly
slow to boot, until a couple weeks ago. I rebooted the
computer and got a Blue screen with an error message
explaining something about an "unmountable Boot drive" and
that I continue to experience problems I may have to
uninstall any recently installe hardware. Well I haven't
added any hardware to the machine. I rebooted it from
there and it's worked great until today. I rebooted it
this morning and got the same colored blue screen and this
time it said somthing about a "registry file failure" and
that it was unable to find the file(this may not be
exactly right as I'm away from my notes right
now) "system32/system/software". Or something like that.
So I called HP, ended up paying the $30 service fee and
the guy has me do a reboot, hitting F8 to get into
advanced startup options. He then tells me to
choose "safe mode". So I do that and he tells me to
choose the operating system "Windows XP Home Edition"
which is what was supposed to be on there. But the only
operating system I could choose was "Microsoft Windows
Whistler Personal". Well the first thing the tech says is
that I shouldn't have that on my computer. I choose it to
start in safe mode but all it did was scroll a bunch of
driver and partition names and stop, never entering safe
mode. Well the tech's only solution was to do a full
system restore to get it back to the way I bought it. My
wife has since rebooted the machine and it's booted up the
desktop just fine.
But I'm wondering if someone can tell me what they think
might be going on with this thing. And why does it
say "Windows Whistler Personal" as my Operating system.
I'm done a Google search and discovered that Whistler was
a codename for one of MS's operating system while it was
in development, I'm assuming it was XP. Is it possible I
have an early pre-release version on of XP on this
machine? Is that a problem? Any suggestions or advice
would be much appreciated. I'll check back to this forum
for responses or you can e-mail me.
Thanks!
David
machine and I'm wondering if someone can help me. First
off, let me explain something. I bought my PC off the
shelf like it was a demo machine at a store in Bellingham
Washington "Crazy Prices" (No joke!). It didn't come in a
box, just the PC and some manual. Great price, no
warranty. It's worked fine, other than being incredibly
slow to boot, until a couple weeks ago. I rebooted the
computer and got a Blue screen with an error message
explaining something about an "unmountable Boot drive" and
that I continue to experience problems I may have to
uninstall any recently installe hardware. Well I haven't
added any hardware to the machine. I rebooted it from
there and it's worked great until today. I rebooted it
this morning and got the same colored blue screen and this
time it said somthing about a "registry file failure" and
that it was unable to find the file(this may not be
exactly right as I'm away from my notes right
now) "system32/system/software". Or something like that.
So I called HP, ended up paying the $30 service fee and
the guy has me do a reboot, hitting F8 to get into
advanced startup options. He then tells me to
choose "safe mode". So I do that and he tells me to
choose the operating system "Windows XP Home Edition"
which is what was supposed to be on there. But the only
operating system I could choose was "Microsoft Windows
Whistler Personal". Well the first thing the tech says is
that I shouldn't have that on my computer. I choose it to
start in safe mode but all it did was scroll a bunch of
driver and partition names and stop, never entering safe
mode. Well the tech's only solution was to do a full
system restore to get it back to the way I bought it. My
wife has since rebooted the machine and it's booted up the
desktop just fine.
But I'm wondering if someone can tell me what they think
might be going on with this thing. And why does it
say "Windows Whistler Personal" as my Operating system.
I'm done a Google search and discovered that Whistler was
a codename for one of MS's operating system while it was
in development, I'm assuming it was XP. Is it possible I
have an early pre-release version on of XP on this
machine? Is that a problem? Any suggestions or advice
would be much appreciated. I'll check back to this forum
for responses or you can e-mail me.
Thanks!
David