Unmountable Volume Found

dawitdawit
edited May 2004 in Hardware
Hi guyz,

I am using windows XP professional. If I try to boot up normally, it hangs on the boot screen. I attempted "Last known config" but still the same. I tried "safe mode", and I got the blue screen with message, "Unmountable volume found". I tried my hard drive in another pc, suprisingly, it just booted OK. I am using a maxtor 30 Gig hard drive, and i am not sure, a Gigabyte mother board. It was working fine untill a friend with the same problem came to try his hard drive in my PC. It did work in my PC. I connected my hard drive back and found the blue screen!!! Please, if anyone has a solution, let me hear it.


Thanks!!

Comments

  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Do you have multiple hard drives in your PC? If so, and you left the secondary drive in there, your friend may have given you a boot sector virus.
  • tophericetopherice Oak Ridge, TN
    edited May 2004
    Sounds like you screwed up you Master Boot Record. Boot from the XP installation CD and then using the Recovery Console run fixmbr, this will rewrite your MBR.

    Here's an overview and link:

    FixmbrRepairs the master boot record of the boot disk. The fixmbr command is only available when you are using the Recovery Console

    fixmbr [device_name]

    Parameter

    device_name

    The device (drive) on which you want to write a new master boot record. The name can be obtained from the output of the map command. An example of a device name is:

    \Device\HardDisk0.

    Example

    The following example writes a new master boot record to the device specified:

    fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0

    Note

    If you do not specify a device_name, a new master boot record will be written to the boot device, which is the drive on which your primary system is loaded.
    If an invalid or nonstandard partition table signature is detected, you will be prompted whether you want to continue. If you are not having problems accessing your drives, you should not continue. Writing a new master boot record to your system partition could damage your partition tables and cause your partitions to become inaccessible.

    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...onsole_cmds.asp
Sign In or Register to comment.