Boot up blue screen message

[Fierce]

We have a WinNT4.0 SP6a puter that when it boots up and comes to the blue screen displays the following message:

Cannot open volume for direct access.

What does this mean? Is it causing a problem? Can it be corrected??

Thanks!!

[Cygnus]

I can probably answer this but I need al lil more info...are you booting up even when this message shows up?

[Fierce]

Yes, the boot up does complete, and am able to log on, and use the computer fine. One day it "just" appeared when the user logged on. (I know I know, things just dont happen on their own)

[Cygnus]

Make sure all of the disk is setup as Fat or NTFS. This error could be due to the system kernel trying to access a drive or partition that is not initialized properly. I have also had similar errors when after i setup an NT system I tried to change the drive letters(boot Drive). When you do this the boot.ini file has to be edited manually or the system may not boot.