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when completing a disk clean up on c:, there was 70,000kb in 'compress old files'
the machine was running for a heck of a long time and then just powered off. Wouldn't turn on until i disconnected power for 30 secs.
when it turned on, it came up with BSOD stating UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
on looking up troubleshooting guides online for this error everyone is telling me to use 'r' repair option or chkdsk/fixboot progs on XP bootdisk.
This is not an option for me, when i boot from xp disk it goes through the motions, installing temp files and then instead of giving me the install/repair screen it tells me my c: needs formatting. there is not much data on c: and I am prepared to lose it.
However, I have a partition (d
which holds a lot of my personal files, and beleive that if i format my c: at this point, when i reboot it will tell me d: needs to be formatted or re-poartitioned. I really dont want this to happen and lose my d: data.
i tried bypassing the format and asked it to install winxp onto c: but it still found a format problem and wouldn't let me proceed without formatting.
I have also tried booting from win98 floppy to give me a c
rompt, and ran scandisk and checkdisk from that, both say disk is fine.
I am not able to access XP disk via win98 c: prompt, so i cant add the parameters /r /p etc. Please advise, i'm sure there is a way to save my d:/ and you help would be greatly appreciated.
the machine was running for a heck of a long time and then just powered off. Wouldn't turn on until i disconnected power for 30 secs.
when it turned on, it came up with BSOD stating UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
on looking up troubleshooting guides online for this error everyone is telling me to use 'r' repair option or chkdsk/fixboot progs on XP bootdisk.
This is not an option for me, when i boot from xp disk it goes through the motions, installing temp files and then instead of giving me the install/repair screen it tells me my c: needs formatting. there is not much data on c: and I am prepared to lose it.
However, I have a partition (d
which holds a lot of my personal files, and beleive that if i format my c: at this point, when i reboot it will tell me d: needs to be formatted or re-poartitioned. I really dont want this to happen and lose my d: data. i tried bypassing the format and asked it to install winxp onto c: but it still found a format problem and wouldn't let me proceed without formatting.
I have also tried booting from win98 floppy to give me a c
rompt, and ran scandisk and checkdisk from that, both say disk is fine. I am not able to access XP disk via win98 c: prompt, so i cant add the parameters /r /p etc. Please advise, i'm sure there is a way to save my d:/ and you help would be greatly appreciated.