blue screen - error message says - Unmountable_Boot_Volume

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niteowl

I'm working on a computer with XP Pro, on bootup it stops and gives me
the following error, saying windows has shut down and to check for any
hardare or software additions, etc.

Nothing was added to this machine, though it did weather some heavy
lightning in our area, so it might have gotten surged.. none of the
other 50 machines were affected however...

anyway the error message says simply: Unmountable_Boot_Volume

I tried booting up to safe mode, and all other modes offered, including
last good configuration.. always it brought me back to the same blue
screen error stated above.

I am currently running the diagnostic program from booting up to the
utility partition..

any other suggestions? Could it be as simple as a fried hard drive?
The HD does spin up on bootup, but that's about all I can say about it
at this point.
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Thanks for any suggestions.

niteowl
 
niteowl said:
I'm working on a computer with XP Pro, on bootup it stops and gives me
the following error, saying windows has shut down and to check for any
hardare or software additions, etc.

Nothing was added to this machine, though it did weather some heavy
lightning in our area, so it might have gotten surged.. none of the
other 50 machines were affected however...

anyway the error message says simply: Unmountable_Boot_Volume

I tried booting up to safe mode, and all other modes offered, including
last good configuration.. always it brought me back to the same blue
screen error stated above.

I am currently running the diagnostic program from booting up to the
utility partition..

any other suggestions? Could it be as simple as a fried hard drive? The
HD does spin up on bootup, but that's about all I can say about it at
this point.
\
Thanks for any suggestions.

niteowl
Click to expand...

"STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" Error Message When You Restart
Your Computer or Upgrade to Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297185

Unmountable Boot Volume
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555302
 
Hi, and thanks.

not sure why, but I think of posting here first.... I'll try to
remember google next time...

this did work for me though, guess it was a corrupt file system, and
once I "stumbled" into the Recovery Console I was able to get it
done..

System is back up and running now,

thanks!!

niteowl
 
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