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tamsin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:53:06 -0000

please help!!!! i got the dreaded unmountable boot volume message..tried all 5 methods to boot.. safe mode..etc and none of these worked it just kept going back to same message..then whilst trying to boot i pressed f10 for recovery mode and something called pc angel popped up i followed the onscreen instructions and it worked!!! my pc is now as good as new ( i even had to go through the start up like when i first got my laptop) all files and folders have been deleted,and my laptop is faster than ever..great! but pc angel has deleted all my photos (about 1000) and im gutted i can never get these photos back..please any ideas how to retrieve my photos????

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pris — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:58:09 -0000

This was very helpful. Once I was able to make a working bootable disk from the SeaTools ISO (I used the ISORecorder app from alexfeinman.com), I was able to boot the laptop with the unmountable boot volume error to SeaTools disk. It's found one error so far on the long test, and I am hoping it's able to fix my problem!

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Desperate — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:26:58 -0000

Hi i am having the same issue, i get a blue screen that says "unmountable boot volume" and i have two cd's for windows reformat, but one of them does not let me get past the "press any key to boot from cd", i pressed every key i could..but it wont load. Second cd brings me strat to ms dos..where ur chkdsk /p command did not work..

Please please please help..i dont even see the welcome screen.thank you.

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Spaz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:22:46 -0000

Your a supastar. Fixed it first time. Many many thanx.

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fixed! — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:13:21 -0000

Thank you! I have used this fix on three occasions so far!

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Ash — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:28:08 -0000

At last, the solution to the dreaded error that I am experiencing. However, does anyone know if I follow these steps then will it let me into Windows normally and keep all my files or will it wipe them off as part of this process?

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NickBoy98 — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:19:18 -0000

u are the best now my computer is a liitle laggy but working

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George — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:44:19 -0000

omg. thank you sooo much. it got it to work again!

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K73 — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:51:37 -0000

Does it have to be an XP install disk you originally used or can you use any one else's XP disk?

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Ross — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:38:17 -0000

worked for me...thanks!

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uzo — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:10:06 -0000

thanks very much for your advice. it worked. there is a little error,
when your are in DOS prompt type chkdsk (chkdsk/p is wrong), other steps are correct.

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scott — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:59:05 -0000

I also have done all of the steps but when I get to the selecting the R for repair, it locks up at
WIndows XP professional setup
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238418 Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on iastor...

it has also gone past this to the next page but I don't get a prompt to type in chkdsk or fixboot. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

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Lin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:13:35 -0000

I use this fixed my computer problem. Thank you very much!

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Anon — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:46:41 -0000

Thanks! I can't believe it, but this worked perfectly. So much for buying a new PC....

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Paul — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:23:53 -0000

You are the best, my wife and i thought that we would have to but a new computer. this worked great the first time.

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Lori — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:42:01 -0000

Works PERFECT!!

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Lori — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:41:11 -0000

Thanks for making note of the SPACE in "chkdsk /p"...I missed that and couldn't figure out why this wasn't working for me.
After I read your post, I went back and it worked PERFECT!

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Paul — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:47:51 -0000

Did not work first time, but after two tries took PC apart, wiggled all conections etc, then tried procedure again (with /r) and then it worked! Bril!! Doing full backups now and going to PC world to buy a new hard drive, they are only £60,- The old one can become a slave drive.

Thanks for the extremely helpful tips and all the comments!

Paul

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Paul — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:24:43 -0000

Hi Benjamin,

did you manage to recover all your files with Unbutu?

Paul

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Gautam — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:39:22 -0000

I went into the BIOS and changed the First Boot priority to CD ROM but the screen says Booting from ATAPI CD ROM ... and then the blue screen error(Unmountable Boot Volume) appears again. What could be the reason. Should i attach my hard disk as a slave to another machine and then format my drive and install Windows XP again?

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Kareema — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:26:11 -0000

Thank you very much for the advice.. I tried it and it works wonderfully.

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Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:36:09 -0000

ok this is it on a normal xp pc clcik del to enetr setup on startup inster our disc into the cd/dvd drive and click advanced bios settings. next turn whichever boot device which is hard drive to cd/dvd drivr and follow on thru

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SDC — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:28 -0000

It worked for me on the 2nd time! I had to do both the chkdsk /p and the chkdsk /r before I saw any improvement but it worked! Thank you!!!

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hopeless23 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:48:38 -0000

I have a Dell Laptop. I was able to get into setup to disable the interal hdd as someone else mentioned. I then hit boot from cd. It stated that it loaded files. Did I overwrite my other files? Are my pictures that were stored on my harddrive gone forever?

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James — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:38:53 -0000

Thank you so much!! It worked! Flawlessly. I was so scared I had lost all of my information since I didn't do any backup beforehand. The comments left by others were especially helpful! I'll describe my experience below so that it may help you.
I have a Dell laptop inspiron 700m, working fine until it gave me the blue screen with the unmountable boot volume. I didn't have any "Windows XP CD-ROM" but I did have a "Dell Laptop Windows Operating System CD" which I created for backup years ago (Thank God!). I inserted the CD, right on the startup screen I pressed F12. It then says "boot menu". Choose the IDE CD-ROM and not the IDE HDD, because you want to reboot from the CD, not the hard drive, since your hard drive is in trouble. Then it takes me to the Welcome Screen (be patient!) and then I followed the exact directions as above, and it worked fine. One thing to remember is not to type in any command until you see the "C:/>" prompt. And the "chkdsk /p" has a SPACE in it. Good luck y'all! I'm hella happy my computer is back.