unmountable-boot-volume

[judyoo7]

my neighbor has an emachine and is receiving this
message. we are not able to boot her machine. I can not
even boot the system in safe mode or in the mode where it
restores it to a previous working time. How do I get
this error off so I can reboot my system. thanks so much
for your help. Judy Miller of billings, mt

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Judy;
Power off
Desktop:...Open the case and reseat the hard drive IDE ribbon cable at
both ends.
Laptop:... simply remove and reinsert the hard drive.
If that fails:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315403

Otherwise go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and
download their hard drive diagnostics.

Do you have a hard drive overlay such as Max Blast?
Windows XP sometimes has issues with overlay software.
You may need to perform a Clean Installation without there overlay
software which is not needed anyway.