Re: Unmountable boot volume error - XP DISC?

Yes. I my opinion, if chkdsk cannot fix a drive, you are best served by giving up on it and getting a new drive. There are ways to recover the data, but usually quite expensive.

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"Lori" <Lori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4C9F4E72-1D57-4A50-9C82-1B2F403C96A0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The bad news is, the drive contains one or more unrecoverable errors. That
means the drive is gone. Right?

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

You must enter 'recovery console' to do the chkdsk command. Put in a Home
edition CD and boot to it (F12 on a Dell. usaually available from the Dell
BIOS screen). Choose R for repair and the prompt will appear.
If chkdsk is no help, the other REPAIR feature you need is after starting a
full setup from CD (pressing ENTER rather than R). It will be necessary for
the Home edition CD you use to match your machines 'Service Pack Level'
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"Lori" wrote:

> I have a wonderful Dell computer, as does everyone else in my family. > My
> daughter got the dreaded blue unmountable boot volume error tonight and > from
> all the research I just did here, seems you should use your Windows XP > disc,
> if you don't have a startup disc, which of course we don't, and then > run a
> check disk with the command chkdsk/r to fix this. However, we don't > know
> which disc goes to which computer. Would it matter if we use an > Windows XP
> disc that came with my computer if they were purchased a few years > apart but
> both run on Windows XP Home? Will that matter?
>
> I am just so tired from all this leg work...or should I say, eye and > brain
> work to figure this one out. I saw some links to sites to download > registry
> fix programs, but not sure which is safe or what to do.
>
> Any help is welcomed, please. Thank you in advance!

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