Re: "STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" Error Message
From: °Mike° (qp_mike_qp_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/18/04
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:24:10 +0100
"STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" Error
Message When You Restart Your Computer or Upgrade to
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185
Stop 0x000000ED Error Message When Volume on IDE Drive
with Caching Enabled Is Mounted
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315403
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:13:47 GMT, in
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melbjer@hotmail.com scrawled:
>
>
>I have had WinXP Pro installed on an 80G WD harddrive since April.
>After hundreds of boots, I now get the apparently well-known error
>message
>
>"STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME"
>
>This started suddenly for no reason. I had used the computer the night
>before to scan some pictures, shut it down, and the next day saw this
>message. There had been no software or hardware changes. I searched
>old postings and went to the MS website and the message seems to flag
>the cable or harddrive. The cable is the proper 80 pin. I have an old
>30G harddrive with WinXP that I had used before upgrading to the 80G
>WD, so I unplugged the WD and plugged in the old harddive, and it
>booted perfectly, so did an old Win98 harddrive. At this point I
>thought bad harddrive or corrupted files, so I made the WD a slave and
>booted XP with the old 30G. I could see and read the WD, however,
>everything under MY DOCUMENTS either was gone or was invisible to me.
>Everything else was readable. It's the files in MY DOCUMENTS I want to
>get. Not all of them are backed up. The next thing I tried was to
>place the WD back as the C: drive and to boot from the WINXP CD,
>thinking I would try to repair the installation. However, the computer
>sees the CD, says it can boot from it, seems to start the process,
>then hangs. I tried the same thing with the old WinXP harddrive as C:
>and it boots properly from the CD.
>So, my questions are,
>1) Does this sound like a bad harddrive?
>2) If not, why would the error message start after WinXP working well
>for so long?
>3) Why can't I see the contents of MY DOCUMENTS when the WD is a slave
>and I'm booting to another harddrive? Are the contents gone or are
>they hidden since the administrator of the WD drive did not log in? Do
>I need to reset some permissions on the WD somehow, and can I do that
>from the old 30G drive?
>4) Can I use the WinXP CD to repair the WD drive? How can I get the
>system to finish booting from the CD? How can the WD harddrive affect
>booting from the CD?
>Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>Jerry
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