Unmountable_boot_volume

[berra43]

Friends,
I have seen a lot of UBV questions here but none when it is about Windows
Vista.
My son has an ASUS F5 with W Vista. I had a problem about Rtutils were I got
a reply from Richard Urban, much appr. Unfortenately I didn´t manage to try
this out before the next crash occurred. I have used the recovery cd from
Asus but the result is not so very promising. Anyone who has experience with
UBV and Vista and can make some comments are truly welcome.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

<quote from KBase article>
"If your UDMA hard disk is connected to the controller with a 40-wire UDMA
cable, replace the cable with an 80-wire cable."
<end quote>
I think I can assume you are running a SATA drive, so the above is moot.

Also that you have run 'chkdsk /r' from the 'Command prompt' (available in
the recovery options.)

Windows Vista Help What are the system recovery options in Windows Vista:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/2b3724d1-f4ad-5b26-16dc-3e9e66f4be5e1033.mspx

If this 'recovery' screen fails to fulfill the description here, I suggest
making a boot disk, or flash drive boot from this:

Windows Vista Recovery Disc Download — The NeoSmart Files:
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/
The NeoSmart disk will get you to the 'command prompt' item mentioned in the
'recovery options' page.

All this is not to say you are stuck if chkdsk /r fails. I would then be
looking at something hardware related, like the old gottcha of a loose wire.

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[berra43]

Mark,

I am happy. Your remark solved the problem. The big issue was the disk
itself with some errors cleared by CHKDSK. I think a wise thing is to change
the harddisk because it feels a little unreliable.