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melbjer
I have had WinXP Pro installed on an 80G WD harddrive since April.
After hundreds of boots, I now get the apparently well-known error
message
"STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME"
This started suddenly for no reason. I had used the computer the night
before to scan some pictures, shut it down, and the next day saw this
message. There had been no software or hardware changes. I searched
old postings and went to the MS website and the message seems to flag
the cable or harddrive. The cable is the proper 80 pin. I have an old
30G harddrive with WinXP that I had used before upgrading to the 80G
WD, so I unplugged the WD and plugged in the old harddive, and it
booted perfectly, so did an old Win98 harddrive. At this point I
thought bad harddrive or corrupted files, so I made the WD a slave and
booted XP with the old 30G. I could see and read the WD, however,
everything under MY DOCUMENTS either was gone or was invisible to me.
Everything else was readable. It's the files in MY DOCUMENTS I want to
get. Not all of them are backed up. The next thing I tried was to
place the WD back as the C: drive and to boot from the WINXP CD,
thinking I would try to repair the installation. However, the computer
sees the CD, says it can boot from it, seems to start the process,
then hangs. I tried the same thing with the old WinXP harddrive as C:
and it boots properly from the CD.
So, my questions are,
1) Does this sound like a bad harddrive?
2) If not, why would the error message start after WinXP working well
for so long?
3) Why can't I see the contents of MY DOCUMENTS when the WD is a slave
and I'm booting to another harddrive? Are the contents gone or are
they hidden since the administrator of the WD drive did not log in? Do
I need to reset some permissions on the WD somehow, and can I do that
from the old 30G drive?
4) Can I use the WinXP CD to repair the WD drive? How can I get the
system to finish booting from the CD? How can the WD harddrive affect
booting from the CD?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Jerry
After hundreds of boots, I now get the apparently well-known error
message
"STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME"
This started suddenly for no reason. I had used the computer the night
before to scan some pictures, shut it down, and the next day saw this
message. There had been no software or hardware changes. I searched
old postings and went to the MS website and the message seems to flag
the cable or harddrive. The cable is the proper 80 pin. I have an old
30G harddrive with WinXP that I had used before upgrading to the 80G
WD, so I unplugged the WD and plugged in the old harddive, and it
booted perfectly, so did an old Win98 harddrive. At this point I
thought bad harddrive or corrupted files, so I made the WD a slave and
booted XP with the old 30G. I could see and read the WD, however,
everything under MY DOCUMENTS either was gone or was invisible to me.
Everything else was readable. It's the files in MY DOCUMENTS I want to
get. Not all of them are backed up. The next thing I tried was to
place the WD back as the C: drive and to boot from the WINXP CD,
thinking I would try to repair the installation. However, the computer
sees the CD, says it can boot from it, seems to start the process,
then hangs. I tried the same thing with the old WinXP harddrive as C:
and it boots properly from the CD.
So, my questions are,
1) Does this sound like a bad harddrive?
2) If not, why would the error message start after WinXP working well
for so long?
3) Why can't I see the contents of MY DOCUMENTS when the WD is a slave
and I'm booting to another harddrive? Are the contents gone or are
they hidden since the administrator of the WD drive did not log in? Do
I need to reset some permissions on the WD somehow, and can I do that
from the old 30G drive?
4) Can I use the WinXP CD to repair the WD drive? How can I get the
system to finish booting from the CD? How can the WD harddrive affect
booting from the CD?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Jerry