Re: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME & booting XP from a floppy...
From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 11/23/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:47:06 -0700
I am not sure if you can use someone else's CD for the Recovery
Console installation.
Are you using the proper download?
The one you are using does not apply to SP-1 or SP-2.
Try downloading again, be sure to get the correct copy:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310994
Also...
Power off
Desktop:...Open the case and reseat the hard drive IDE ribbon cable at
both ends.
Laptop:... simply remove and reinsert the hard drive.
If that fails:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315403
Otherwise go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and
download their hard drive diagnostics.
Do you have a hard drive overlay such as Max Blast?
Windows XP sometimes has issues with overlay software.
You may need to perform a Clean Installation without their overlay
software which is not needed anyway.
-- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ "Matt" <surpluss.nospam@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:30h9lqF30mlovU1@uni-berlin.de... > Ok I have a Compaq Presario and a UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error. I > know that this can be repaired in the Window's Recovery console but > since Compaq computers don't ship with a Windows XP disk I have no > way of opening a Recovery console. So their tech support suggested > I go to the following site and download an app to make a bootable > floppy for XP: > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=E8FE6868-6E4F-471C-B455-BD5AFEE126D8 > > I run the app and it makes my 6 bootable disks but every time I try > to start the computer with the disks it locks up on disk 5 saying : > > File ksecdd.sys caused an unexpected error (4100) at line 5010 in > d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\setup.c. > > I've tried remaking the disks and even new disks but nothing seems > to help. Any ideas? > > Also could I use any XP disk to start the recovery console? >
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