unmountable boot volume

A friend is using windows xp and it won't boot upinstead
a blue screen comes up saying that xp has stoped loading
due to the unmountable_boot_volume disable the bios
memory of caching and shadowing memory but I can't find
this in the bios settings. Have tried safe mode with and
without command prompt but to no avail, can anyone help.
No restore disk or xp disk xp (oem)number on side of
computer and it's packard bell

"jim" <jimsteensonglynn@fsmail.net> wrote in message
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> A friend is using windows xp and it won't boot upinstead
> a blue screen comes up saying that xp has stoped loading
> due to the unmountable_boot_volume disable the bios
> memory of caching and shadowing memory but I can't find
> this in the bios settings. Have tried safe mode with and
> without command prompt but to no avail, can anyone help.
> No restore disk or xp disk xp (oem)number on side of
> computer and it's packard bell

It depends on what brand of BIOS you have, as to the particulars of what you
do to get to the CMOS settings. Here is a link to a variety of BIOSs and
what to do to enter into CMOS:
http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/2157.html

You press the respective key DURING boot, before Windows starts...

Good luck