When I turned on my computer this morning, a blue screen of death appeared. Unmountable_Boot_Volume 0x00000050 (0x81e6ccde, 0x0000000, 0xFC157BF1, 0x000000) I have done my reasearch, and most sites and forums have suggested that I run the Recovery Console from the XP CD. I run it as a boot cd and select (R) repair, but it freezes when it gets to "Examining Startup Environment". I have not been able to find any information about fixing the problem with out using the recovery console. Thanking you in advance. -James

my thoughts are, the above errors refer to the os not being able to load because of the size of your comp, XP minimum requirements to operate effectively are P3550 (absolute minimum, ideal P3800 & above) and 256 ram

See if the info at this Microsoft link will help

You are mostlikly looking at a damaged file system. The only way to repair it is either with the recovery console, OR a third party NTFS Reader/Writer. Like NTFSDOS Pro from www.winternals.com. The problem is that NTFSDOS Pro costs $299. So you might want to do some searching for another program that can read and write to ntfs partitions from DOS. I have used NTFSDOS Pro several times (I talked my Boss into buying it for me) to fix simalar problems.

Don't go to 'Repair', go to Recovery Console and run CHKDISK, this will fix it !!

try to run scan disk to check errors by newer versions of it like the scandisk of xp or ME or norton 2003 this may help good luck!

When booting, I receive the options of loading safe mode, normal mode etc. All of the options bring up the following blue screen error message: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME STOP 0x000000ED (0x80A6FE30, 0xC000009A, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Tried using Windows XP as the boot disk, loads and asks for the following options: Press ENTER to install Windows XP Press R to go to the recovery console When trying to use both of these options the system will hang and in the bottom left hand corner it says Examining Startup Environment Occasionally it will come up with another blue screen with the error message: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA STOP 0x00000050 (0x81FBE4D6, 0x00000000, 0x0000000, 0xFC157BF1, 0x00000000) Ntfs.sys ADDRESS FC157BF1 base at FC00000 Datestamp 367dc5d0 As this makes it inpossable to access the Recovery Console to run CHKDISK. I am looking at 3rd party software to fix the error. Thank you very much for your replies.