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John K. Taber
My Windows XP, Home Edition, SE2, refuses to boot. I'm running XP on a
Dell 4700, with a 80 GB Maxtor SATA drive.
My system is dual boot, with Fedora Core 3 installed on a second 80 GB
Maxtor SATA drive; and my boot loader is Grub.
My problem arose when I tried to defrag my XP disk. Defrag seemed to
take far too long, apparently hung at 67% completion, so I stopped the
defrag by clicking stop.
When I tried to start Windows the next day, I wound up with the Blue
Screen, UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME, and the Technical Information of:
*** STOP: 0x000000ED (0x82390370,0xC000009C, ...)
I understand that I need to restore the boot volume, and from Googling
the net, the below incantations, prayers, and propitiations are what I
think I have to do:
1. Use the Reinstallation CD provided by Dell with my system.
2. Have ready my XP PRODUCT KEY pasted on my Dell, and enter if/when asked.
3. Someplace at install time, select "repair" with the R option.
4. Because defrag did not complete, there are probably damaged files. So
I should run "chkdsk /r" to fix.
5. Finally, enter "fixmbr". I have an Admin password, so enter it when
asked, and when notified of a non-standard boot loader, let the
non-standard get wiped out with XP's loader. I'm not sure of the
incantation here.
I would appreciate comments. Do I have it right? Corrections, please.
TIA
John
Dell 4700, with a 80 GB Maxtor SATA drive.
My system is dual boot, with Fedora Core 3 installed on a second 80 GB
Maxtor SATA drive; and my boot loader is Grub.
My problem arose when I tried to defrag my XP disk. Defrag seemed to
take far too long, apparently hung at 67% completion, so I stopped the
defrag by clicking stop.
When I tried to start Windows the next day, I wound up with the Blue
Screen, UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME, and the Technical Information of:
*** STOP: 0x000000ED (0x82390370,0xC000009C, ...)
I understand that I need to restore the boot volume, and from Googling
the net, the below incantations, prayers, and propitiations are what I
think I have to do:
1. Use the Reinstallation CD provided by Dell with my system.
2. Have ready my XP PRODUCT KEY pasted on my Dell, and enter if/when asked.
3. Someplace at install time, select "repair" with the R option.
4. Because defrag did not complete, there are probably damaged files. So
I should run "chkdsk /r" to fix.
5. Finally, enter "fixmbr". I have an Admin password, so enter it when
asked, and when notified of a non-standard boot loader, let the
non-standard get wiped out with XP's loader. I'm not sure of the
incantation here.
I would appreciate comments. Do I have it right? Corrections, please.
TIA
John