Unmoutable_boot_volume error message on start up

[Guest]

I had the above error show up on my pc last night, I have tried to use my
recovery disc but it just kept taking me round to the beginning, it seems I
now have several partial registrations of xp, I have no idea what to try
next, can you help?
thank you

 

[Karl]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q297185/

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Amanda:
Power off
Desktop:...Open the case and reseat the hard drive IDE ribbon cable at both
ends.
Laptop/Portables:... simply remove and reinsert the hard drive.
If that fails:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315403

Otherwise go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and download
their hard drive diagnostics.

Do you have a hard drive overlay such as Max Blast?
Windows XP sometimes has issues with overlay software.
You may need to perform a Clean Installation without their overlay software
which is not needed anyway.