Ok, so I restarted my computer today and I come up with this blue screen -- apparently I have an "unmountable boot volume." I googled the phrase and I came up with this solution: restart with the XP install disc, run the recovery console, and do a chkdisk.
The problem, which worries me a lot, is that when it comes to select the XP installation... my installation isn't on there. At this point I think I have a corrupt hard drive and I might have to reformat. I've made this decision hastily before, and I don't want to do it again, so I pose you this question, PAers. Is there anything else I can do, or is reformatting my last shot to use my drive?
Also, when I start Linux (Linux works fine, btw) when it attempts to mount the Windows NTFS partition, it tells me that it's not a valid NTFS format. Which seems to add weight to the theory that my partition is hosed.
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Also, if the partition is corrupt it wont necessarily find it...
Do chkdsk /r and reboot, should be good to go...
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chances are you have a corrupt sys file... CLASSPNP.SYS or DISK.SYS
you could mash F8 and boot using debug mode to see exactly which file is screwed up (it will be the last one before the bluescreen)
but recovery console should be able to fix it for you
I start up the recovery console, and it asks me to point to my current Windows installation. There's only one option, E:\Minint or something like that. If I try to run the recovery console on it, there aren't any of my files there, I think it's some kind of hidden system partition. So I'm kind of stuck, as I see it. I can't recover it if my system can't find it, right? Unless there's something I'm missing.
You'll want to do Chkdsk C: /r and let it go to town... If after doing that it still doesn't cooperate then also try fixboot and fixmbr.....
More importantly I would try to get into the Bios and run the HDD tester, if its an HP....
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