wildbill411 Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I am getting this BSOD: Unmountable_boot_volume, after getting past the XP start up logo.I tried doing a XP disc repair but the option was not available.I also tried mounting the hardrrive in an external usb case but cannot get any of my pc's to recognize it, if I could I would back up the data and do a full reformat.I ran across this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297185 MS document, and realized I ran the application "TuneXP" and enabled "UDMA66" in the hardware settings.Could this be the reason I cannot boot into windows all the way?The system is a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop.any help is very much appreciated.thanks IA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadav Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Could be a hardware problem (bad sectors) or just a logical problem (with the file system). try running "chkdsk /r" from the recovery console. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildbill411 Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 Could be a hardware problem (bad sectors) or just a logical problem (with the file system). try running "chkdsk /r" from the recovery console.chkdsk /r did it the second try?thanks for the reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kindovic Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 if the bsod still comes back after you did a chkdsk, it means that your harddisk is dying soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erpdude8 Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I'm also having the same exact problem as wildbill411.I'm starting to get the Unmountable_boot_volume BSOD message on my brother's mitac 8080 notebook computer everytime XP boots. Looks like the hard drive on there is almost dead.One might try Partition Table Doctor to repair/recover an "unmountable" hard drive partition:http://www.ptdd.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascii2 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 if the bsod still comes back after you did a chkdsk, it means that your harddisk is dying soonThe quoted information is not accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildbill411 Posted June 14, 2008 Author Share Posted June 14, 2008 I'm also having the same exact problem as wildbill411.I'm starting to get the Unmountable_boot_volume BSOD message on my brother's mitac 8080 notebook computer everytime XP boots. Looks like the hard drive on there is almost dead.One might try Partition Table Doctor to repair/recover an "unmountable" hard drive partition:http://www.ptdd.com/did you run the "chkdsk /r" ? it fixed it for me. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erpdude8 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 (edited) did you run the "chkdsk /r" ? it fixed it for me. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302I couldn't run CHKDSK /R on any attempt, wildbill411. The unmountable_boot_volume message appeared even before I loaded the XP recovery console from either the XP boot disks or the XP CD. That means I can NOT access CHKDSK at all and have no chance of doing a repair on the hard drive.The specific unmountable_boot_volume message on my bro's XP laptop was like this:STOP 0x000000ED [0x85B3BB20 0xC000009C 0x00000000 0x00000000]Anyway I recently resolved the problem using SpinRite. Loaded the Spinrite boot disk onto the laptop (and ran Spinrite at Level 2) which found and fixed the flawed hard drive sectors and recovered critical data on them. Then after Spinrite was done, I booted up the XP laptop as normal and the unmountable_boot_volume message went away. But I did run CHKDSK /R after XP loaded normally and CHKDSK also found and fixed some more hard drive problems.Notice that I mentioned "0xC000009C" as part of the unmountable_boot_volume error. Do a Google or Yahoo search on 0xC000009C and you will see that this "status code" indicates a "bad block" or bad sector and will need to be fixed using either CHKDSK /R or a more powerful disk checking tool like SpinRite. Edited June 20, 2008 by erpdude8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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