Unmountable Boot Volume

[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

 

[Guest]

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?

 

[Guest]

-----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

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.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

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.