bluescreen of death PLEASE HELP!

[benjamesburrows]

a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down
to prevent damage to your computer.

unmountable_boot_volume

tech info
*** stop: 0x000000ed
(0x80e94cc0,0xc0000006,0x00000000,0x00000000)

please help!
thanks in advance.

 

[archie]

check your drivers....

 

[Jeremy Poynton]

And given that he can't get into XP, how would he do that ? Out if interest,
not flaming you !

JP

 

[Meat-->Plow]

a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down
to prevent damage to your computer.

unmountable_boot_volume

The operating system loader can't mount your bootable partition.

 

[Guest]

This would mean one of three things. One, you have
sustained hardware damage to the primary hard disk drive.
This may also be cause by data lost on the hard drive that
is required to boot. The last cause might be that bois
settings have been changed. This would be te first place
to check, and you may want to contact the oem with help
here.
If the bios checks out and it is not an incorrect
hardware setting use the windows xp disk and perform a
clean install delete any unknown partitions it finds
durring setup.

 

[Sharon F]

a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down
to prevent damage to your computer.

unmountable_boot_volume

tech info
*** stop: 0x000000ed
(0x80e94cc0,0xc0000006,0x00000000,0x00000000)

please help!
thanks in advance.

Some references for working through this problem:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php#0xed

 

[Alex Nichol]

a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down
to prevent damage to your computer.

unmountable_boot_volume

The boot can't get at the partition where the Windows folder is - or
where it *thinks* it is.

A *possibility* is that just the boot.ini file has been damaged, and
things *might* come back if you restore it. Worth trying: Set the BIOS
to boot CD before Hard Disk. Boot the XP CD and, instead of Setup, take
the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password requested is blank, and
TAB over.

Give
ATTRIB -H -R -S C:\boot.ini
DEL C:\boot.ini
(to delete the one that is there) then
BootCfg /Rebuild

If that does not do it, probably there is extensive damage to the disk's
content