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Post by qnx100 on Jan 8, 2006 21:41:09 GMT -5
I was wondering if you might be able to help me with this. For the past two days I haven't been able to get on to my computer at all. Friday it worked fine, but yesterday and today, nothing. As soon as I turn it on, I get an error message (something that says "unmountable boot volume"), and then Windows XP never loads. I can't get it to load in safe mode either. I don't know why this happened all of a sudden. I looked online for help, and the only site I found for this problem said that I should try using the "recovery console" on the Windows XP CD and type in a certain command. I don't have this CD, in any case. Do you have any ideas?
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Post by beaston105 on Jan 8, 2006 21:50:03 GMT -5
sorry, I don't know what to do.
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Post by Drew on Jan 9, 2006 0:39:24 GMT -5
I was wondering if you might be able to help me with this. For the past two days I haven't been able to get on to my computer at all. Friday it worked fine, but yesterday and today, nothing. As soon as I turn it on, I get an error message (something that says "unmountable boot volume"), and then Windows XP never loads. I can't get it to load in safe mode either. I don't know why this happened all of a sudden. I looked online for help, and the only site I found for this problem said that I should try using the "recovery console" on the Windows XP CD and type in a certain command. I don't have this CD, in any case. Do you have any ideas?
Sounds like your hard drives has some problems. Is this a blue screen... where you see the error message?
(You might want to print these instructions out before-hand) Restart your computer in Safe Mode With Command Prompt by doing the following: * Restart your computer * After your computer beeps once during startup but, before the Windows icon appears, you should press F8. * Instead of seeing the ususal Windows screen, you should see a menu appear * Select "Safe Mode With Command Prompt" * Select "Windows XP" as your OS... (If it asks) * Wait for command prompt to load... * Type in "chkdsk /f", Press enter (make sure you type in forward-slash not backslash) * Wait for it to do its thing (this is going to take a good 10-20 minutes... depending on the size and speed of your Hard Drive) * Type "exit", Press enter * Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete at the same time (If nothing happens... Make sure that you're holding all three keys down all at once. Also, make sure you're pressing "Delete" or "Del"... not Backspace.) * Click "Shutdown", Select "Restart", Click "OK"
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Post by qnx100 on Jan 9, 2006 11:50:41 GMT -5
Thanks for the help.
I tried this, but it didn't work. After I selected "Windows XP" as the OS, the command prompt never loaded. The error message came on instead.
Any idea what I should do?
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Post by Drew on Jan 9, 2006 12:09:18 GMT -5
Thanks for the help. I tried this, but it didn't work. After I selected "Windows XP" as the OS, the command prompt never loaded. The error message came on instead. Any idea what I should do? There's a couple things that you can do... I need to know a few things first, though... Do you have the Windows XP CD? Is this a laptop or desktop computer? Does your computer have a floppy disk drive? Do you have access to a CD Burner on another computer? Do you have another computer that also has Windows XP loaded on it?
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Post by qnx100 on Jan 9, 2006 12:39:51 GMT -5
* I do not have a Windows XP CD.
* It is a laptop computer. It does not have a floppy disk drive.
* I have a second computer (the one I'm on now) that has Windows XP and a CD burner.
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Post by qnx100 on Jan 9, 2006 14:41:03 GMT -5
Never mind. Forget the whole thing. I've solved it.
Thanks for your help.
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Post by raychip on Jan 9, 2006 14:45:38 GMT -5
u solved it? what was it?
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Post by qnx100 on Jan 9, 2006 21:13:36 GMT -5
I had to use the recovery console. I lost all my files, but at least my machine still works.
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Post by Drew on Jan 9, 2006 23:27:25 GMT -5
I had to use the recovery console. I lost all my files, but at least my machine still works. Yeah, I was going to suggest a couple other things for you to try first and, leave the recovery console as a last resort... so you wouldn't lose your files. But, anyway... glad it's working again for you, again.
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