Unmountable Boot Volume

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David Kemp

This problem has appeared since installing a new HDD
(Excelstor J360, 60Gb) Whenever my XP Professional
systems is 'Cold'booted it gets to the Windows start up
screen and then reboots itself after briefly flashing up
a Blue screen. I disabled auto-reboot in System Recovery
so I could read the message and it basically states
Unmountable Boot Volume followed by the usual unreadable
code sequence. I've tried rebooting from the install CD
and running CHKDSK /P followed by FIXDISK, but it made no
difference. I then ran CHKDSK /R but still no change. I
suspect this may have something to do with the XP IDE
driver files not being 100% compatible with the new
drive. Also, my previous drive was 40Gb so the new one is
larger, are there any special conditions setting up
larger HDD's in XP? Do I need to use a different IDE
Driver? I don't know what to do next, any suggestions
would be appreciated. Thanks
 
Hi,
You dont state how you've installed this, have you drive
imaged your old HD, or is the new drive installed as a
secondary disk, booting from your original drive?
 
-----Original Message-----
This problem has appeared since installing a new HDD
(Excelstor J360, 60Gb) Whenever my XP Professional
systems is 'Cold'booted it gets to the Windows start up
screen and then reboots itself after briefly flashing up
a Blue screen. I disabled auto-reboot in System Recovery
so I could read the message and it basically states
Unmountable Boot Volume followed by the usual unreadable
code sequence. I've tried rebooting from the install CD
and running CHKDSK /P followed by FIXDISK, but it made no
difference. I then ran CHKDSK /R but still no change. I
suspect this may have something to do with the XP IDE
driver files not being 100% compatible with the new
drive. Also, my previous drive was 40Gb so the new one is
larger, are there any special conditions setting up
larger HDD's in XP? Do I need to use a different IDE
Driver? I don't know what to do next, any suggestions
would be appreciated. Thanks
.
This is a new drive installed as the master on the
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Primary IDE channel. It is a clean install of Windows XP
done by booting from the Installation CD. The drive was
formatted using the format feature available during the
set up process.
 
David;
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 there overlay
software which is not needed anyway.
 
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