UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME...anyone else experienced this before.

[Guest]

I am following the procedure to fix this problem by using the chkdsk /r. If
you have experienced this before, I would love to know what you did to
resolve the problem. My computer will not start at all and doesn't recognize
the installation cd for Windows XP in the drive.

anything could help. thanks

 

[Guest]

its probably your bios/cmos settings. press and hold the f1 key and power up
the pc. when you see a unique menu, ei cmos menu release the key. look in
there and see if your hardware, ie disks, cd are being recongnized. you will
probably see the option to press an f3 key to automatically search for your
disks if they are not present. you might also see an otpion to automatically
set your configuration to best or optimal settings that you can try, then
save and exit. if you still can't boot or the cmos does not find any disks,
then the cables to the disks may have vibrated loose inside the pc.....

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I am following the procedure to fix this problem by using the chkdsk /r.
If
you have experienced this before, I would love to know what you did to
resolve the problem. My computer will not start at all and doesn't
recognize
the installation cd for Windows XP in the drive.

anything could help. thanks

I

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I am following the procedure to fix this problem by using the chkdsk /r.
If
you have experienced this before, I would love to know what you did to
resolve the problem. My computer will not start at all and doesn't
recognize
the installation cd for Windows XP in the drive.

anything could help. thanks

This often refers to either a hardware problem (wrong or loose cabling or
drive failure), BIOS settings (wrong speed used for the drive) or file
system damage.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185

I'm not sure exactly what you mean that the sytem doesn't recognise the XP
CD. Do you mean that it doesn't boot from it? If that's what you mean,
be sure that the CD drive is first in the Boot Sequence list in the BIOS.

If the CD drive is not listed in the BIOS at all, remove and re-seat the
drive cabling. Be sure that any cables leading to hard disks are
80-conductor, not 40-conductor. Reseat the cabling for hard disks and
CD/DVD drives, both at the drive and motherboard ends. Be sure you take
static and power precautions. If you are unsure of these, get some
assistance.

If you have any valuable data on the drive, consider the current state of
backups. If they aren't current, you may want to have the drive backed up
from another system before doing any other work such as reinstallations: if
the file system is sufficiently damaged, formatting may be necessary.

It may also be that the drive is actually failing. If there's any question
of this, the low cost of new drives presents a good argument for simply
replacing the drive, doing a clean install, and restoring from backups.
Where I live, an 80 gig drive can be had for around CDN$60. It doesn't
take long for bench time at a repair shop to exceed that.

HTH
-pk