UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

[Flavor4real]

Hello, How is it going? Question:

Opperating system WINDOWS XP Home

When i start the system then a blue screen comes up saying UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME - I tried safe mode, last current mode and every other mode via F8 too.

All it does is to list drivers (system) and then goes to the blue screen where it say UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME with the code number xxx STOP:0x000000ED (0x80E116F8, 0x000000p, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

How can i format the Harddrive the easiest way so that i can put the system new on it?

Is there a other way to start the current system?

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[Korach]

if your data is important look in:
thread779-436409
if not, I know two ways to format the disk.
1. start the computer with a win98 startup disk, use fdisk and then format.
2. start the computer with win2000 startup disks (4 disks takes lond time to load).

maybe you can start your machine with a bootable cdrom of win2000 and format to ntfs without fdisk, but I didn't try it.

 

[HUNTER87]

I would look into swapping out your memory before you do anything drastic like formating your drive. I had an UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error last week I resolved the error by replacing the ram.

 

[Flavor4real]

well i found a link with 6 startup disk for Windos XP..this should reinstall the OP system ..i'll give it a try.

He got this Computer since a year and a half and all he do is just Word stuff.. i don't think that he crashed his memory. It's a gateway i think.

thanks for the info guys

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[zestril5]

Maybe Xp Home is different. I have only really worked with a lot of XP Pro systems BUT... whenever I have this bluescreen come up I change the Bios setting to have cdrom be the first boot device. Insert the XP installation disk and reboot. You will be asked if you want to install or repair. Choose repair. you will get to a C:\ or c:\windows\ prompt. Type in chkdsk. If chkdsk say everything is ok run it again using the /p switch (chkdsk /p).
This method has always repaired the installation for me with no loss of files. A lot faster and easier than reformatting and starting over.

 

[Flavor4real]

How can i get into the BIOS ?

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[bcastner]

What is the brand and model of the machine? Try hitting on bootup the Delete key, Escape, the F1 key, the F2 key and the F10 key. It should be one of those.

 

[skiflyer]

Intriguing, I wonder if this is some virus going around... my computer just did this last week.

If you have another partition on the disk of sufficient size your data is safe. If not, then I hope one of these other routes helps you.

What I did was install Redhat 9.0 on another partition, mount my NTFS drive, burn all my data to CD, then used FDISK to blow away all the partitions and then used the XP cd to blow away the MBR, then re-install Windows. (It's fun isn't it?)

-Rob

 

[skiflyer]

Oh, a side note which made me go this drastic route instead of just re-installing Windows in Repair mode... I booted up to a DOS prompt with a start disk, and was unable to view the contents of my drive, the system thought it could, but then kept crapping out on read.

-Rob

 

[Flavor4real]

It's a gateway computer - well, he don't do anything professional with it i think i'll use the 6 setup boot disk for Windows XP home and reinstall the OP. In that way i can be sure that no virus is on it.

Thanks for the help

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[nutcracker1955]

I recently had a simular problem with XP Home. New install on HD. That blue screen keep coming up. I have other things attached to the inside of the tower like; Trios II, a CDROM & CDRW, 3 hard drives and a zip.
My bios was set improper to start off with. Boot from CD ROM should have been the 3rd setting.
Floppy, HD then CDRom. the other factor was I had to run the MB Ribbon direct from HD to MB then I was able to finish the install. But every other time after the install that blue screen with the stop error still came up. I switch Master/Slave on the CDRoms. I made my new CDRW Master and placed the CDrom Slave. Also when I did W2K had to remove one ribbon from a cd rom to install that. Weird tricks but now after that Win XP Home Sp1 runs very good. I futher did the windows updates, Installed my programs, installed the anti spyware stuff and lastly installed Norton AV Sys Works and Internet security. 2 days later defrag, and I have tried to make a crash happen. I'm happy with it

Jim

 

[Flavor4real]

other question ..

I've installed Windows XP home on my computer and i activated this OP System over internet. now i got another computer in the other room, can i install the same opperating system (i've used on the 1st computer)on this one ??



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[Flavor4real]

forgot something... The computer #1 is a gateway and the Windows XP home edition is for gateway computers. That's what it says on the top of the cover CD. My other computer#2 is self build..so can i use the system on the CD and will i be able to install on the computer#2 ??

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[PC2K1]

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME ERROR!!
HP 7955 Pavilion XP Home upgraded to XP Pro.

Searching throughout the entire GOOGLE search engine, computer forums after computer forums, none seem to resolve my PC UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error.

For what I understand and done:
I have tried to recovery with the XP bootdisc after setup configuration the disc didnt find a hard drive to recover or to setup new XP. Replaced new 80wire 40pin as Microsoft suggested, it didnt work (the old cable has the same 80wire 40pin). BIOS show no HD attached.

Took HD made as slave HD on another PC, volume reads not formatted and storage at blank GB. I'm now thinking I may have two problem at the same time, the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error may effect as well as the same time the HD off&on died and no where to be found. Well I'm thinking about get a factory installed HD from HP because of the drivers issue, but heard HP has some restriction on this?

Can anyone tell me what else can I try?

Thanks in advance!

 

[skiflyer]

Flavor

No, you cannot legally use the same operating system on more than one box. If you wanted to break the law, it would be possible, but there is some finagling involved which is of the sort not discussed on Tek Tips, and also which I'm not sure I'd trust in this day and age with how Microsoft talks to each of your computers.

-Rob

 

[Flavor4real]

oh ok - i thought so - thanks 4 the info bro

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[nutcracker1955]

What you want to do with your HP may not be possible or a correct thing to do. Upgrade windows creates many other problems in the driver section. I do know from repairing HP computers that the windows software was written for HP and HP has cloaking on the disk and use there oun style of zip to do the install.one example is take an HP recorvery disk and place it in a non HP computer then try to see whats on it, I bet it shows empty! If you try a dell XP software it will load Dell drivers and so on. But there may be light in the tunnel. I was running through the pages last night and read two articles relating to a simular question. Ghost corporate and something with Norton, I will look futher into this. Good luck

 

[PC2K1]

nutcracker1955

Is that all HP PCs? Because I'm now currently use this HP8575 Pavilion upgraded from win98se to winme now winXp Pro without any crashes. This HP7955 is the first crash from Xp Home to Pro since the upgraded and it's been almost 2yrs before the crash occurred.

 

[sosegumu]

I recently had a customer with critical data who had this problem. The repair console kept bombing out; neither was it a memory or cabling issue. A functioning hard with Windows XP pro installed was unable to read the customer's hard drive--it didn't even recognize it as ntfs file system. I thought that I was going to have to send him to the data recovery company to spend some big buck$.

But Linux is awesome. Thinking back to the cracking days, I remembered that you used to be able to crack and change NT passwords with a scaled-down Linux floppy distribution.

So, I loaded RedHat 8.0 to a spare harddrive and mounted the customer's drive as read-only, copied the data onto the RedHat drive and uploaded it onto our webpage for storage.

The thing is, I still can't understand why Linux could recognize the file system and read it when Windows XP Pro could not. Any of you programmers or engineers know the reason??? I'd love to know...

 

[bcastner]

sosegumu,

That you would receive the error with the drive as boot is not so suprising.

Your query is why as slave is the drive often seemingly unrecognized.

Assuming jumpers are set correctly on both boot drive and "new" slave, and assuming XP Disk Management was asked through Action, rescan drives, the answer is likely because the chipset level drivers controlling the IDE bus controllers at the time of original format are different than the driver set facing this "new" slave drive.

As a root cause I do not blame XP but the authors of the drivers. The Linux drivers are much more simply written and rarely complain.

To add something to this thread. Rather than go through a Red Hat install, or a parallel XP install, make yourself a boot CD of either of both of these freeeware tools:

Knoppix, which I believe Linney mentioned earlier; and or Emergency Rescue Disk (ERD) both of which can be found in links in the following discussion:

http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,7018905~root=winme~mode=flat

I use both. Highly recommended.