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Unmountable Boot Volume
Name: Valerie (by Garibaldi) Date: February 13, 2004 at 18:01:49 Pacific OS: Win XP Home CPU/Ram: Celeron/256
Comment:
On boot up get a message which says Win shutting down to prevent damage etc... UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. I cannot start up in safe mode or get to the recovery console, nothing works. Cannot boot from the cdr or XP floppy disk or from Norton cd.
F8 brings up the advanced choices but nothing occurs when Safe mode or any other mode is selected.
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