Unmountable boot volume

[Guest]

I have a 2 yr old laptop and I tried to use boot floppies, but it says
unmountable boot vol. I have no Idea, I also tried a win 2000 floppies same
thing. tried a win 98 disk and said was unable to format disk. I think must
be some fat32 HP bios thing. I checked my floppies for errors and
downloaded the xp pro orig and sp1 boot disk maker and still no luck. Any
Ideas would be nice Thanks

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

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.

 

[Ron Martell]

I have a 2 yr old laptop and I tried to use boot floppies, but it says
unmountable boot vol. I have no Idea, I also tried a win 2000 floppies same
thing. tried a win 98 disk and said was unable to format disk. I think must
be some fat32 HP bios thing. I checked my floppies for errors and
downloaded the xp pro orig and sp1 boot disk maker and still no luck. Any
Ideas would be nice Thanks

Boot your computer with the 6 diskette boot set that matches your
Windows XP version.

When the computer has finished booting up from the diskettes and stops
at the A:\> prompt enter the following command:

CHKDSK /R

If that does not resolve the problem then post a reply back here
describing the results and please include the complete text of the
error message, including all 4 of the parameters.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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