XP

[Guest]

My home computer has shut down and will not reboot. When you turn it on, it goes to a blue screen and says "Microsoft has shut down to protect itself". It also says "unmountable boot volume". It will not operate in safe mod. What could be wrong?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Try the following link to MVP Jim Eshelman's web page:

"0x000000ED: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME"
http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php#0xed


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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| My home computer has shut down and will not reboot. When you turn it on,
it goes to a blue screen and says "Microsoft has shut down to protect
itself". It also says "unmountable boot volume". It will not operate in
safe mod. What could be wrong?

 

[Jym]

Try this :
Jym


kb# SW00014
When booting up to Win XP you may get a error that reads
"Unmountable Boot Volume". This is probably because your boot.ini file is
messed up.
So, what do you do about it, panic and try to mount your boot in
your computer...... No that is probably not a good idea.

You can boot to the XP cd and when you see the Welcome to setup
press the letter R
You will get a dos prompt
Then type "chkdsk /p" without the quotes and hit enter
When that is done type "fixboot" and hit enter
"Y" and enter at the prompt
Then type "exit" and hit enter
The system will now reboot into Windows

If for some reason that don't work for you, you can boot to the
recovery console like above and...
Type "chkdsk /r" then enter
When done type "exit" and hit enter.
This will take longer, but the system should boot back into Windows.

My home computer has shut down and will not reboot. When you turn it on,

it goes to a blue screen and says "Microsoft has shut down to protect
itself". It also says "unmountable boot volume". It will not operate in
safe mod. What could be wrong?