Unmountable boot volume

[Guest]

My friend has this error, according to the microsoft page, it is a damaged file system, as she has the 0000032 error.
The problem is that the recovery cd will not run, and we do not have the floppy disks, so what should we do?

 

[Guest]

The "recovery system" is sometimes an image of what was on the disk when it was purchased. If that is so, then everything added since then would be wiped out. You might want to read carefully what kind of recovery system it is
Even if the volume is unmountable by you at that computer, someone else might place the disk in another computer and get access to its contents, allowing at lease a recovery of the data. They might even get it to mount.

This would probably be the safest route, since it would not have to execute any of its software, including a functioning OS
There are a lot of good software applications for this. My advice is to not try to make it mount under its own power. Let it be the slave drive and another OS be running during the analysis and mounting/recovery.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

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.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/

My friend has this error, according to the microsoft page, it is a

damaged file system, as she has the 0000032 error.

The problem is that the recovery cd will not run, and we do not have

the floppy disks, so what should we do?