Re: Unmountable Boot Volume problem

From: Russell Wizinsky (DWIZINSKY_at_TWMI.RR.com)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:07:36 GMT

I've had the same problem like that, but with xp home. Actually I had just
restored the xp pro version on this system then found out it was only
purchased with home so I erased it and restored home. But when windows went
into final setup it came up with that. Tech support at compaq told me that
the hardware bios wouldn't take 160 gig drive. I told them I already
installed pro on it fine, and I partitioned the hard drive to 137 so home
wouldn't have a problem they hung up on me.

I tried the fix with the chkdsk but it came up as unrecoverable error. Any
other suggestions?

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"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message
news:eJJHV4msEHA.1344@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Judy;
> 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/
>
>
> "Judy" <no@fake.invalid> wrote in message
> news:2ibum0pb5m5ppu0vsu7bd7pgros9s07q3m@4ax.com...
>>
>> Hello group,
>>
>> I hope I am posting this problem in the correct group. If not, please
>> suggest an appropriate group.
>>
>> Upon trying to install Windows XP pro on a certain computer, When the
>> installation boots via the hard drive for the first time and shows the
>> XP boot screen, it then stops the installation and displays
>>
>> Unmountable Boot Volume error message.
>>
>> This is on a Samsung 40 gig hard drive, split into 2 partitions of
>> about 20 Gigs each.
>>
>> I have tried formating the "C" partition with both FAT32 and NTFS
>> with the same result.
>>
>> I have tried running CHKDSK /p and CHKDSK /r which both
>> re-port all is fine with the hard drive.
>>
>> I have tried running FIXBOOT and it says it successfully creates a
>> new boot sector, but the problem persists.
>>
>> I read that the boot ini file might be faulty, so I checked it against
>> a know good copy on another machine and it looks fine.
>>
>> Samsung does not seem to offer any drive diagnostic software for
>> download, so I have only used CHKDSK so far.
>>
>> This same computer did have Windows XP installed on it, but had some
>> problems with some other installed software, so the "C" drive was
>> formatted and I am now trying to perform a fresh install of XP.
>>
>> I also used Partition Magic to remove the "C" partition and recreate
>> it to see if that would make any difference. It did not make a
>> difference.
>>
>> I would be most appreciative if anyone had any helpful suggestions
>> about this problem.
>>
>> Thank you in advance if you can assist me.
>>
>> Judy
>
>

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