Recovery Problems...

[Jason Volmut]

Hello, and thank you in advance for viewing.

I am working with a Dell Inspiron 4100 and during the
boot process I receive the BSOD stating that there is an
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. I did a search for this and saw
that I should goto the recovery console and run chkdsk /r
from the command prompt after hitting "r" to repair a
Windows XP installation. When got to the command prompt
I ran chkdsk /r and recieved the error "autochk.exe could
not be located in either the startup directory or the
CDROM drive" I then did a "dir" on the C: and received
the error "An error occured during directory
enumeration". Is the HD done for on this thing??

 

[Gerry]

It's hard to tell if your hard disk is toast yet or not.
I hope you have your important data backed up. My best
advice at this point (since the recovery option didn't
work) would be to try a new fresh install. Boot for your
windows xp install disk and proceed through the options
for a new install. See if it will format the drive. If
it won't format for a new install, then I would say the
drive is toast. Good luck.