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Unmountable boot volume
Name: JAY Date: December 19, 2002 at 19:32:05 Pacific OS: Win ME Home Ed CPU/Ram: amd Athlon 4 356
Comment:
This is the third time that this message showed up on my laptop:
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer..etc..
I solved this problem before by reinstalling the recovery disks. But this time I have so many dile is my hard disk and I don't want to delete all of them by using the recovery disks.
Name: j-wolf Date: December 19, 2002 at 19:45:47 Pacific
Reply:
Well your hard drive may be damaged or the boot records. Try this, If you have a boot floppy then boot with that. After boot run this - fdisk /mbr. This will repair your master boot record. Run scandisk for actuall physical damage.
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Response Number 2
Name: Madman Date: December 20, 2002 at 16:22:39 Pacific
Reply:
I had the same problem with my XP Home OS. It only occured one time. But, it had me worried. I did a lot of research and found, among other things, this from MS:
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