Help with Unmountable_Boot_Volume

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ECLiPSE 2002

When my daughter booted up her WinXP Home edition PC she got a blue
screen with an Uncountable_Boot_Volume error message which said that
there was a problem with windows and it was shut down to protect the
computer.
The screen narrative advised a restart and if that did not work to try
to reboot in safe mode. When this is attempted a black screen with a
full screen of various statements which meant little or nothing to me-
but would not open in windows safe mode and simply returned to the
blue error screen above.

In addtion to the above suggestions on the blue screen was the
following technical information:

STOP: Ox000000ED(0x81b9daf8, 0X0000006,0X00000000,0X00000000)

Ths is an EMachine that came preloaded with Win XP home and a vendors
recovery disk. I am hoping that it may be possible to salvage my
installed programs and settings/configurations before resorting to a
full reinstall from the vendors recovery CD.

Any guidance or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Frank
 
ECLiPSE 2002 said:
When my daughter booted up her WinXP Home edition PC she got a
blue screen with an Uncountable_Boot_Volume error message which
said that there was a problem with windows and it was shut down
to protect the computer.
The screen narrative advised a restart and if that did not work
to try to reboot in safe mode. When this is attempted a black
screen with a full screen of various statements which meant
little or nothing to me- but would not open in windows safe mode
and simply returned to the blue error screen above.

In addtion to the above suggestions on the blue screen was the
following technical information:

STOP: Ox000000ED(0x81b9daf8, 0X0000006,0X00000000,0X00000000)

Ths is an EMachine that came preloaded with Win XP home and a
vendors recovery disk. I am hoping that it may be possible to
salvage my installed programs and settings/configurations before
resorting to a full reinstall from the vendors recovery CD.

Any guidance or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Frank
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Did a quick search in the archives at Google Groups:
http://www.google.com/groups?as_epq=STOP: Ox000000ED&safe=off&ie=
UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=lang_en&num=50&hl=en

Your shorter link is: http://makeashorterlink.com/?G113129B8

Are those of help?
 
Frank;
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 their overlay
software which is not needed anyway.
 
Thanks everyone for the responses and suggestions. I have progressed
to the following point and reached an impasse:

I went to the Microsoft web page that provides a download of the 6
Windows XP startup floppy disks and was able to install them and log
on to Recovery Console window with a c:\ prompt.

As instructed by some responders and the Microsoft knowledge page I
typed in CHKDSK /r to run the repair at the prompt.

Now here is the problem: it says that setup cannot find AUTOCHK.exe in
either the startup directory or the CD ROM drive. Since I do not have
the WinXP CD I need to somehow find AUTOCHK.exe and see if it is
possible to add it to the Recovery Console.

Would anyone be able to suggest a work around or provide guidance?

Frank
 
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