laptop says unmountable boot volume and will not restore. please help.

I have a two year old sony vaio laptop. The other night it suddenly went
to a blue screen that said unmountable_boot_volume. I can't start my
laptop in safe mode or any of the other options. The only thing that
seems to work is putting the vista disk in and I'm not sure what to do
now because many of the command prompt? things I've tried don't work
because it can't recognize the hard drive. At least this is what I get
from it. The last prompt I tried entering was diskpart and that comes up
saying MINWINPC and that is it. Does anyone have any clue of something I
can try?
Thank youu.


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ve0804

ve0804 wrote:
> I have a two year old sony vaio laptop. The other night it suddenly went
> to a blue screen that said unmountable_boot_volume. I can't start my
> laptop in safe mode or any of the other options. The only thing that
> seems to work is putting the vista disk in and I'm not sure what to do
> now because many of the command prompt? things I've tried don't work
> because it can't recognize the hard drive. At least this is what I get
> from it. The last prompt I tried entering was diskpart and that comes up
> saying MINWINPC and that is it. Does anyone have any clue of something I
> can try?
> Thank youu.
>
>


Replace the defective hard drive, re-install the OS and applications,
and restore your data from your most recent backup.


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"ve0804" wrote:

>
> I have a two year old sony vaio laptop. The other night it suddenly went
> to a blue screen that said unmountable_boot_volume. I can't start my
> laptop in safe mode or any of the other options. The only thing that
> seems to work is putting the vista disk in and I'm not sure what to do
> now because many of the command prompt? things I've tried don't work
> because it can't recognize the hard drive. At least this is what I get
> from it. The last prompt I tried entering was diskpart and that comes up
> saying MINWINPC and that is it. Does anyone have any clue of something I
> can try?
> Thank youu.
>
>
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> ve0804
>

LOL. Got to laugh. Faking an MVP status and posting via the Web interface. You are
more of an d***y then I thought .

Everyone knowledgeable spots it the first time out.

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> Read this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932790 do steps in 918884!
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>
> Make it a great day!
>
> Charles Richmond
>
>
>
>
> "ve0804" wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a two year old sony vaio laptop. The other night it suddenly went
>> to a blue screen that said unmountable_boot_volume. I can't start my
>> laptop in safe mode or any of the other options. The only thing that
>> seems to work is putting the vista disk in and I'm not sure what to do
>> now because many of the command prompt? things I've tried don't work
>> because it can't recognize the hard drive. At least this is what I get
>> from it. The last prompt I tried entering was diskpart and that comes up
>> saying MINWINPC and that is it. Does anyone have any clue of something I
>> can try?
>> Thank youu.
>>
>>
>> --
>> ve0804
>>