Unmountable Boot Volume

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Hey

I have a problem with my laptop, running windows xp professional sp2. It
failed to power down itself when i last used it, so i switched it off
manually. It now won't load into windows on any of the boot 'modes'. My
friend had a look and it's showing 'unmountable boot volume' as the stop
message. I'm not wanting to lose any of my important information on the
laptop, so is there any way of recovering windows and keeping this data?

Thanks

Jamie
 
Jayk16 said:
Hey

I have a problem with my laptop, running windows xp professional sp2. It
failed to power down itself when i last used it, so i switched it off
manually. It now won't load into windows on any of the boot 'modes'. My
friend had a look and it's showing 'unmountable boot volume' as the stop
message. I'm not wanting to lose any of my important information on the
laptop, so is there any way of recovering windows and keeping this data?

Thanks

Jamie
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Boot the computer with a Windows XP installation CD and choose the
Repair (Recovery Console) option from the menu. When the computer
has finished booting and has stopped at the command prompt enter the
following command:

CHKDSK C: /R

That should fix the problem.

If you do not have an actual Windows XP installation CD (for example
if your computer came with Windows preinstalled and a "System
Recovery" CD or CDs) then you need to create a bootable CD such as
Bart's PE Builder (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/) on another machine
and then boot the problem computer with this CD. When it has
finished booting open a Command Prompt window and enter the above
command.

Note: If your laptop is an HP/Compaq then it may have the Recovery
Console preinstalled. If so it will flash a startup menu with the
Recovery Console as one of the choices for a couple of seconds when it
is powered on. You have to be quick to catch this but it will get
you to where you need to be in order to run the chkdsk command listed
above.

Good luck


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Jayk16 said:
Hey

I have a problem with my laptop, running windows xp professional sp2. It
failed to power down itself when i last used it, so i switched it off
manually. It now won't load into windows on any of the boot 'modes'. My
friend had a look and it's showing 'unmountable boot volume' as the stop
message. I'm not wanting to lose any of my important information on the
laptop, so is there any way of recovering windows and keeping this data?

Thanks

Jamie
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Failing all the other advice, buy yourself a copy of SpinRite.
http://www.grc.com

Wonderful hard drive tool, that has saved MANY thousands of others in
similar situations as you. Here is a testimonials page if you want to read
a little about it's wonders:
http://www.spinrite.info

I have no connections to the above mentioned site or software, just a happy
customer and user...

Good luck!
 
Failing all the other advice, buy yourself a copy of SpinRite.http://www.grc.com

Wonderfulharddrivetool, that has saved MANY thousands of others in
similar situations as you. Here is a testimonials page if you want to read
a little about it's wonders:http://www.spinrite.info

I have no connections to the above mentioned site or software, just a happy
customer and user...

Good luck!
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Firstly you need to use one of the many software applications that
enables you to either clone or create an image of the drive.

If you do anything else you are more likely to end up needing to send
your drive to a professional data recovery company as the longer the
drive is ruuning the greater the chances are that the fault will get
worse and possibly distroy the data.

Never use spinrite unless you have either a clone or an image of the
suspect drive - spinrite oftens takes hours to run, and it is seldom a
productive method of data recovery.
 
Sean said:
Firstly you need to use one of the many software applications that
enables you to either clone or create an image of the drive.

If you do anything else you are more likely to end up needing to send
your drive to a professional data recovery company as the longer the
drive is ruuning the greater the chances are that the fault will get
worse and possibly distroy the data.

Never use spinrite unless you have either a clone or an image of the
suspect drive - spinrite oftens takes hours to run, and it is seldom a
productive method of data recovery.
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SpinRite isn't data recovery software, and was never meant to be. While it
will attempt to recover the data of a sector that is bad, on a sector by
sector basis, this is not considered data recovery. Data recovery is
generally a term used for programs that attempt to recover entire files, not
individual sectors.

SpinRite will NOT destroy any data that is already on the drive. Apparently
you don't know how SpinRite works, and, based upon your comments, have
probably have never used it yourself (or even seen it being used.)

What SpinRite does is force the drive to reallocated the data that is found
in bad sectors over to the "spare" sectors on the hard drive. If a bad
sector is found, SpinRite makes 2000 attempts to read and recover the data
in that particular sector. Any data that could be recovered in then moved
to the spare sector and the drive swaps that spare sector in in place of the
bad one.
 
You can employee Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software a file
and partition recovery utility to recover lost data from any situation
like accidental format, or retrieve data from inaccessible hard
drive.
Download the demo version of software from: http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm
scan your hard drive and the scan result will show you the preview of
the recovered data.
 
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