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XP unmountable boot evice
Name: josoft Date: January 22, 2004 at 05:05:10 Pacific OS: xp home CPU/Ram: 256mb
Comment:
Hi,
My XP home machine was powered off whilst booting and now refuses to come back up. I get the blue screen of death with the message BOOT_UNMOUNTABLE_DEVICE. I have tried safe mode, fdisk from the recovery CD etc but nothing seems to be able to see the Hard disk.
Name: Hooner Date: January 22, 2004 at 05:13:26 Pacific
Reply:
You need to run a repair of Xp. Make CDROM first Boot Device in your BIOS, save and exit.
Place your Xp CD in the drive and reboot (you may need to press F8 or other key during boot), once at the setup screen make like you were doing a fresh install.
When you have to select a partition/drive to install to, select the one Xp is ALREADY on, and you should see an option to repair.
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Response Number 2
Name: Robertt Date: January 22, 2004 at 06:35:27 Pacific
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Is this a Compaq machine?
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Response Number 3
Name: josoft Date: January 22, 2004 at 08:49:28 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
Thanks for the comments. It is a Sony not a Compaq and I currently only have the recovery disk as XP was pre-installed when I bought the system. I do not have XP boot disks but it sounds like I might need to get some.
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