Re: unmountable boot volume

From: Fritz (fritz_at_biteme.net)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:08:34 -0400

I bet you haven't tried replacing the hard drive yet. That may be the only
way but you can try the recovery console - just boot from the XP CD and
select appropriate options (http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm).
Once you get the recovery console prompt, run CHKDSK .

"Chris" <midnightstealthxp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c35401c4384a$0b9ab480$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> everytime my computer starts up, it starts loading windows.
> Then a blue screen comes up saying unmountable boot
> volume. I have done everything that it said to do to fix
> it, and it doesn't work. It won't even let me go into
> safe mode. How can I fix it? please someone E-mail me.
>
> -chris

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