UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

[Martin]

hi All,

I'm getting a mup.sys type stop error saying "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME", on
both my XP and W2000 desktops, caused likely when I had a recent power cut
and I just happened to have iPod's charging. No new hw/sw changes had been
made on either machine. Both powered up ok after the initial outage was
restored, but on subsequent reboots I got this failure......

I've looked on a lot of posts, and pretty much all of them suggest that I
enter the Recovery Console from my XP disk, but when I load from the disk all
I get is a "System Restore Menu" and the following 2 options;

1 Restore Windows XP
2 Boot to Command Prompt from CD-ROM

This is a manufacturers CD, supplied when I got the machine from PC World.
How am I supposed to restore either machine if I can't get to Recovery
Console?

Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated!

Martin

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

The command prompt is all you need. Run the command

CHKDSK /R
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[DL]

Its because you have a restore cd & not a winxp cd

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Martin" <[email protected]>

| hi All,
|
| I'm getting a mup.sys type stop error saying "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME", on
| both my XP and W2000 desktops, caused likely when I had a recent power cut
| and I just happened to have iPod's charging. No new hw/sw changes had been
| made on either machine. Both powered up ok after the initial outage was
| restored, but on subsequent reboots I got this failure......
|
| I've looked on a lot of posts, and pretty much all of them suggest that I
| enter the Recovery Console from my XP disk, but when I load from the disk all
| I get is a "System Restore Menu" and the following 2 options;
|
| 1 Restore Windows XP
| 2 Boot to Command Prompt from CD-ROM
|
| This is a manufacturers CD, supplied when I got the machine from PC World.
| How am I supposed to restore either machine if I can't get to Recovery
| Console?
|
| Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated!
|
| Martin

Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic software
respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard disk is bad or
not..

Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
http://support.wdc.com/download/

Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate - SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/

Samsung - Disk manager
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm