unmountable boot volume

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Anonymous

Dear all,
I was wondering if somone could give me some info

I recently build my first PC and it has been working fine
for the past 3 weeks, i booted up before and there was a
total freeze up so I reset. Now every time I boot up i
get the blue screen which displays the message
unmountable_boot_volume.

Could anyone give be some info on what the proble could
be.

I am aware it could probs be a number of things but any
info would help

thanks
 
Power off
Desktop:...Open the case and reseat the hard drive IDE ribbon cable at
both ends.
Laptop:... simply remove and reinsert the hard drive.
If that fails:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315403

Otherwise go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and
download their hard drive diagnostics.

Do you have a hard drive overlay such as Max Blast?
Windows XP sometimes has issues with overlay software.
You may need to perform a Clean Installation without there overlay
software which is not needed anyway.
 
can I just ask....if this fails could it result in me
having to format/ buy a new hard drive?
 
Should not.
The reseating just helps ensure a good connection.
This is the cause about 25% of the time that I have seen.

The referenced links are also non destructive to data.
 
I was wondering if you fixed your boot problem? If so
how did you do it and where did you get the info from!
 
I wanted also to tell you that I think I have a fix for
you (unmountable boot volume)this is what you need to do.

"When booting up to Win XP you may get a error that
reads "Unmountable Boot Volume". This is probably because
your boot.ini file is messed up.
So, what do you do about it, panic and try to mount
your boot in your computer...... No that is probably not
a good idea.

You can boot to the XP cd and when you see the
Welcome to setup press the letter R
You will get a dos prompt
Then type "chkdsk /p" without the quotes and hit enter
When that is done type "fixboot" and hit enter
"Y" and enter at the prompt
Then type "exit" and hit enter
The system will now reboot into Windows

If for some reason that doesn't work for you, you
can boot to the recovery console like above and...
Type "chkdsk /r" then enter
When done type "exit" and hit enter.
This will take longer, but the system should boot back
into Windows.
 
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