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Andy
Hi,
PC configuration:
1 x 40 gig Drive, XP Home Edition
1 x 10 gig Drive, Windows 2000 Professional
I recently had problems with my PC where the hard drive would make a
strange, but distinctive grinding noise and after about a minute would lock
up. A restart would normally solve it but after about the 4th time of doing
so (over a period of weeks) the screen went blue and presented me with the
following message:
Unmountable_Boot_Volume
*** STOP: 0x000000ED (0xC0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
As a 'quick' fix, and also because I didn't have that much data on the
drives I proceeded to format both drives and do a clean install of both
operating systems, starting with Win2K.
Computer was fine for about a week, but it has now come up with the same
'Unmountable_Boot_Volume' message again.
Can anybody offer any suggestions as to what the problem could be. Reading
other forums there has been suggestions that it could be RAM, is there any
software available that could test this? Or is there no other choice except
to physically remove the existing RAM and replace it with a new lot ?
Any suggestion appreciated.
Many Thanks,
A frustrated Andy.
PC configuration:
1 x 40 gig Drive, XP Home Edition
1 x 10 gig Drive, Windows 2000 Professional
I recently had problems with my PC where the hard drive would make a
strange, but distinctive grinding noise and after about a minute would lock
up. A restart would normally solve it but after about the 4th time of doing
so (over a period of weeks) the screen went blue and presented me with the
following message:
Unmountable_Boot_Volume
*** STOP: 0x000000ED (0xC0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
As a 'quick' fix, and also because I didn't have that much data on the
drives I proceeded to format both drives and do a clean install of both
operating systems, starting with Win2K.
Computer was fine for about a week, but it has now come up with the same
'Unmountable_Boot_Volume' message again.
Can anybody offer any suggestions as to what the problem could be. Reading
other forums there has been suggestions that it could be RAM, is there any
software available that could test this? Or is there no other choice except
to physically remove the existing RAM and replace it with a new lot ?
Any suggestion appreciated.
Many Thanks,
A frustrated Andy.