[peahouse05]

Hi All
Have been given a Dell Latitude C510/C610 Model No PP01L. When booted it produces BSOD - STOP:0x000000ED - Unmountable boot volume.
BIOS shows 512Mb Ram.
Will not boot from XP disk but HD spins, CD ROM spins and HDD twitters for a while before another BSOD.
Replacement HDD £30, RAM £20. Would like it in the kitchen just to access the Internet.
Any advice most welcome.
Cheers
peahouse05

[TriplexDread]

Corrupt drive maybe?

Both HDD and dvdrom on separate cables?

[Waynos_Face]

Hi,

Mate could be alot of things, but most likely failing hard drive - bad sectors.

Just try and get a 8 or 10Gb HDD cheapo off ebay and try that before buying a proper one.

Also check that the memory is seated correctly, or it could be faulty RAM.

MadX is probably the person to ask as he repairs laptops.

[TriplexDread]

hehe didnt realise it was a laptop at time. Me bad!!

[Madxgraphics]

The file system is damaged. Run chkdsk /r. To do that:

Start the computer with the Windows CD.
At the Welcome to Setup screen, press R to select the repair option.
At the command prompt - type chkdsk /r > press <Enter>.
Type Exit > press <Enter>.

If that doesn't help:
Repeat the steps, but type fixboot instead of chkdsk /r.



HAve yet set BIOS to boot from the CD..??????

[Abarbarian]

I got a working laptop drive of my local FREECYCLE.

[feckit]

Originally Posted by Abarbarian

I got a working laptop drive of my local FREECYCLE.

Freecycle.

[nivrip]

I got a free cycle from my local FREECYCLE.

[peahouse05]

Thanks Guys
Occasionally get a BSOD with Windows system file faults - so will go with a cheap hatd drive as suggested.

Most grateful
peahouse05

[peahouse05]

Hi Guys
A bit of luck - took caddy and pin adaptor off Dell hard drive and it looked like it was the same as the 30Gb HD I took from Daughter's Toshiba because I thought it was faulty - it turned out to be the RAM.
However the Dell has booted Damn Small Linux from this Toshiba HD.
Wife has claimed the machine but wants XP.
Have set BIOS to boot from XP disk and set the one-off boot sequence to CD but it still boots Linux.
Any ideas most welcome.
Thanks in advance
peahouse05