hu guys, im getting this error message saying : unmountable_boot_volume ***STOP: 0x000000ED (0x869A4E30, 0xC0000185, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) now im not able to boot either in safe mode or any other mode, i have got two operating systems, one is windows and other as Ubuntu, and none of them running right now.I have got Ubuntu 8.10 (ultimate edition, installed in a folder with around 8GB space allocated).I dont know what this problem is, but pls help me out and i really dont want to lose my data. solutions i have tried : 1. i ran recovery but it says, u can go further but u will lose data files, so i stopped it. 2. I also tried and booted my system using windows XP bootable CD, but no help as it did not even detected it i guess..or in short it did nothing.

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http://support.microsoft.com/defaul... "STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" Error Message When You Restart Your Computer or Upgrade to Windows XP ---------------------- OR Find a list of STOP MESSAGES(BSOD) here: http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm Click on 'ED' at the right side of that page.