Re: Unmountable_Boot_Volume... yikes!

Hi,

Sounds like the hard drive has failed and more than likely it will need to
be replaced.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"XyloCB" <> wrote in message
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>
> I am having some major trouble with my laptop and would be very
> appreciative of an help that anyone could provide!
>
> Short Version:
> Randomly the other day on booting, my laptop blue-screened with the
> following error: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
>
> I'm running Vista (32) and most of what I've read has not been able to
> work. I can't boot into Safe Mode (same blue screen), so doing anything
> that requires that doesn't work.
>
> Unfortunately, when I boot off the Vista DVD, it doesn't seem to see
> the drive at all, as far as I can tell? When I first run System
> Recovery, a "System Recovery Options" dialog pops up asking me to select
> an OS to repair. Nothing is listed there, but it gives me an option to
> "Load Drivers" for my HD, unfortunately, doing so doesn't seem to
> actually give me any driver options.
>
> Most of the solutions I've seen on the web say to do Startup Repair or
> go to a boot prompt and do chkdsk, but when I try to do startup repair,
> it tells me it can't do it (NoHardDrive?) and when I go a boot prompt,
> it won't see my C: drive.
>
> Now, oddly enough, when this first happened, I tried all these things,
> and on one random reboot, it seemed to work just fine out of the blue!
> I used it fine for about 12hrs. until all of the sudden it wouldn't
> boot. This time it gave me a blue screen error on disk.sys /
> PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA a couple times upon trying to reboot once or
> twice, before now just reverting back to the problem I had before:
> UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME.
>
> So I'm stuck: can't boot to the drive (BSOD, even in Safe Mode), but
> Windows Repair doesn't seem to see the drive. Any help would be MOST
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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