Unmountable_Boot_Volume ERROR

[Karen G.]

I'm working on a Compaq Presario 533ous. When I boot up I get this error,(
unmountable_Boot_Volume). I checked at the Compaq site and they said I
needed to order a Cd for that problem.It said CD will allow the user to boot
to the Recovery Consol run the CHKDSK command.What I want to know is there a
fix for this or something I can try that doestn't require me to order that
CD.
Thanks In Avdvance,
Karen G

 

[neil]

I assume you don't have a XP CD, if you did you can boot from that CD and go
to the recovery console. You can download a set of boot disks from MS (6 in
total) that will give you the options as a windows XP boot CD.

Neil

 

[Karen G.]

I do have the recovery CD for the computer and I have tried to download the
set up disk from Microsoft, but I can't get it to save to the floppy disk
..What should I do now . Thanks
Karen G.

 

[neil]

Hi,
You don't need to save them to a floppy. Save the files as normal then when
you have all 6 you can create useable floppy disks from the files you have
downloaded. (it will become obvious when you have downloaded them)

best of luck
Neil

 

[Karen G.]

Thanks Neil, I have one more ?. I can't download it to hers ,so is it ok to
download it to my pc without it hurting my pc and copy it to disk from
there. I just want to make sure before I do that. Thanks
Karen G.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Please check the following Knowledge Base Article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:
80/support/kb/articles/Q297/1/85.ASP&NoWebContent=1