DESKTOP REFUSED TO BOOT

[Guest]

My Desktop PC is running XP Pro and suddenly refusecd to Boot. Main Errorr
Message is:

'UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME'
Suugestions for running the PC in Safe Mode have also failed because the
system shows the blue-back error screen befor reaching the Safe-mode.
At the end of the story this legend further appears as:
Technical Information:
***STOP: OxOOOOOOED (Ox8ODC44A8,OxCOOOOO32,OxOOOOOOOO, OxOOOOOOOO)
Someone out there please, HELP!

 

[Guest]

Usually going to the Recovery Console & running a good CHKDSK will clear it
up. Especially after "a loss of power".
Have your retail XP CD (or a good , full feature OEM CD ) ready.
Set pc BIOS boot sequence to boot first from CDROM. Boot from XP CD. Get
into Recovery Console. It is the second option line on the XP CD main menu:
it will say (on screen Welcome To Setup) :
"To repair a Windows XP installation using "Recovery Console" press R .

Login to XP with administrator password.
On your system drive, run "CHKDSK /P". I'd run it twice, just to make sure
there are no errors.


At finish, remove CD, restore boot sequence in BIOS, and carefully try
Windows login.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "IKM" <[email protected]>

| My Desktop PC is running XP Pro and suddenly refusecd to Boot. Main Errorr
| Message is:
|
| 'UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME'
| Suugestions for running the PC in Safe Mode have also failed because the
| system shows the blue-back error screen befor reaching the Safe-mode.
| At the end of the story this legend further appears as:
| Technical Information:
| ***STOP: OxOOOOOOED (Ox8ODC44A8,OxCOOOOO32,OxOOOOOOOO, OxOOOOOOOO)
| Someone out there please, HELP!

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

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Boot the system with the WinXP CD and hit 'r' when first prompted to load
the Recovery Console. From the prompt, run "chkdsk c: /r" (without the
quotes of course).

HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows XP [Q307654]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654

This can also be done with the boot floppy set:

Using the WinXP Boot floppy set:
http://www.rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Boot floppy

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org