Re: unmountable boot volume errer when booting from floppy

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From: Marcus (marcus1060_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 05/07/04

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Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 15:30:08 -0700

That doesn't work, I need to boot from the floppy disks
and thats when it goofs up.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q297/1/8
5.asp
>
>regards,
>ssg MS-MVP
>pronetworks.org
>
>Marcus wrote:
>
>> I get the unmountable_boot_volume when booting from
the
>> Windows XP sp1 boot disk, on a laptop without any
windows
>> isntalled.
>>
>> pls help
>>
>
>.
>

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