Unmountable_Boot_Volume

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Getting that message upon booting up the
PC "Unmountable_Boot_Volume" in the infamous blue screen
of death, is this generally RAM failure??


TIA
 
Richie said:
Getting that message upon booting up the
PC "Unmountable_Boot_Volume" in the infamous blue screen
of death, is this generally RAM failure??
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That may be a corruption of the boot.ini file: That tells the boot
where to look for windows components, and it is looking for it on the
wrong physical drive, and not finding it.

Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard Disk. Boot the XP CD and, instead
of Setup, take the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password
requested is blank, and TAB over.
Give:
ATTRIB -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini
DEL C:\Boot.ini
(thus deleting the old one)
BootCfg /Rebuild
 
I am also stuck, did the repair trick, and nothing, same message. So I
then formatted the hard drive figuring it was the problem. Now I can't
install XP again, it hangs at "Windows is starting"..Please help
anyone..TIA
 
I don't know anything about the situation, but it sounds like you might have
a corrupt boot sector on your hard drive. I take it you can copy files to
the drive, but you can't boot to it?

If you have another machine you can use, slave the drive to it and use
chkdsk on it, or any other HDD verification tool. I betcha you find bad
sectors on the drive...

--LB
 
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