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Lap Top -UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
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GACrews
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2. January 2006 @ 08:11 |
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Hi
My Laptop just won't boot up properly every time it starts it comes back with the sames warning unmountable boot volume
Please can anyone give me ideas on how to get around this - would like to reformat the C:\ drive if / when I can get on to the pc.
Thanks in advance for any help
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2. January 2006 @ 10:50 |
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Sounds like a corrupt HDD.
Suggest looking at the following site and running the tests listed to try and recover the HDD.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000630.htm
If it fails then either try a fresh install from CD or get a new HDD and do a fresh install on that. Either way, if it is shot, you are going to need a bootable copy of Windows.
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ScubaBud
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2. January 2006 @ 16:22 |
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Get into your bios at startup and see if it recognizes your HDD. Let it find it, save settings and try again. If that doesn?t work look up a search on loading a MBR on your HDD. You will need a bootable disk and I believe it goes FDISK /MBR
By the way, MBR means memory boot record.
Correction, late night mistake... Master Boot Record. :)
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 3. January 2006 @ 03:35
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SypherTek
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3. January 2006 @ 02:39 |
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@ ScubaBud
Quote:
By the way, MBR means memory boot record
Actually MBR means Master Boot Record
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GACrews
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4. January 2006 @ 02:56 |
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Hi
I have made a boot disk - eventually 6 disks - but that fails to work as it does not appear to recognise the CD Rom drive!
I have check BIOS setup and ensured that it boots from CD Rom - but no joy - but the light does flash on!!
Is it likely to be the HHD or the CD ROM or both??
Plus any idea what I can expect to pay for each of these as it is a fairly old laptop
Cheers in advance and best wishes to all for 2006
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ScubaBud
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4. January 2006 @ 03:05 |
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Do you have an Original Windows XP CD disk? Have you tried that or maybe a friends to see if you can boot from the CD first?
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SypherTek
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4. January 2006 @ 03:31 |
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Quote:
Plus any idea what I can expect to pay for each of these as it is a fairly old laptop
how much will you have to pay for each of what...exactly
Studio Comp: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ OC ~ 2.35GHz runs at 40 celcius idle and 48 under stress (aerocool GT1000 really works!), Asrock K7VT4A , 1024MB Dual Channel DDR 400, MSI Nvidia FX5200 128MB OC ~ 600MHz mem 350MHz core,80GB SATA + 200GB SATA + 120GB IDE, 7.1 Channel Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum EX sound and midi interface. 19" Sony SDM-HS95 TFT monitor - sweeet
Comp2: AMD Sempron 2400+ OC ~ 2.0GHz (Stable), Asrock K7S41GX, 512MB DDR 333, Onboard Graphics, 40GB Maxtor IDE
set of monitors on the way soon :P
Google is your friend...
WorkComp: LAPTOP, intel celeron D 2.4GHz, 256MB DDR, 20GB hd. NO SCREEN IT WAS SAWN OFF :S (bag of crap) |
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rch0621
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4. January 2006 @ 03:56 |
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what brand laptop, Dose
cd rom light blink fast and dose it sound like it spins fast and then slow and then fast,if so most likely cd rom is working sound like a IBM or Toshiba hard drive.did you ever get a blue screen mesg, saying windows is shuting down .
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rch0621
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4. January 2006 @ 04:09 |
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what os are you running xp home, xp pro ,windows 2000,etc,
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lifespeed
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4. January 2006 @ 04:40 |
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