Unmountable boot volume

[Maurice]

Hi ... hard drive crashed ... replaced it with one from
another machine ... downloaded bootable floppy from
www.bookdisk.com (old machine won't boot from CD) ... ran
it to DOS prompt ... fdisk / formatted ... ran WINNT from
i386 folder on CD drive ... files loaded from Win XP Pro
CD onto drive "C" ... machine rebooted - then blue screen
of death - "yacky-yacky-yacky ... Unmountable boot
volume" ... HELP? What's happening? Fix? Thanks ...

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Maurice;
Power off, open the case and reseat the hard drive IDE ribbon cable at
both ends.
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.