Unmountable_boot_volume
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
After days of trying to figure out why I kept getting the message UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME I discovered what I was doing wrong and I’m sharing this with you in hopes you may save sometime in your search.
Scenerio:
I was doing a fresh Install of Microsoft’s Window’s XP Professional on a new system I put together on a Fry’s special PC Chip’s M950 motherboard with a Pentium IV at 2.4 Ghz, 120 Gig Western Digital HDD and 512 RAM. I finished putting all the pieces together, cleared my CMOS by jumping the appropriate settings, loaded in my CD of XP and turned the computer on for the first time. Initial boot up said that BIOS could not detect any drives except my floppy. I discovered this was because I had set one of the jumpers on the Motherboard to make it possible to power up from the keyboard. After setting this jumper back to the factory position, BIOS detected the HD and CD just fine. On rebooting the system I was informed that the CMOS settings were wrong and to press F1 to load the default Fail Safe settings. I did this and Window’s XP started going through the installation process. Since I was considering using this PC for some audio recording I wanted to load the Standard PC software rather than the ACPI configuration. My understanding is that ACPI can cause some glitches with audio recording.
When setup is loading the setup files I pressed F5 rather than F6 to load SCSI drivers. By pressing F5 you have the option to select either Standard PC or Other. I selected Standard PC and continued with the installation process. After Windows copies the set up files and rebooted, I got a message that said UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME After searching google and Microsoft’s website and trying EVERY SUGGESTION on the internet, I discovered it was the Standard PC selection that was causing the problem. When I reinstalled and continued with the normal ACPI installation I had NO problems. Make sure enable ACPI O/S in your BIOS BEFORE installing Windows with ACPI.
Hope this helps,
Don
www.ArtofLiving.org
After days of trying to figure out why I kept getting the message UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME I discovered what I was doing wrong and I’m sharing this with you in hopes you may save sometime in your search.
Scenerio:
I was doing a fresh Install of Microsoft’s Window’s XP Professional on a new system I put together on a Fry’s special PC Chip’s M950 motherboard with a Pentium IV at 2.4 Ghz, 120 Gig Western Digital HDD and 512 RAM. I finished putting all the pieces together, cleared my CMOS by jumping the appropriate settings, loaded in my CD of XP and turned the computer on for the first time. Initial boot up said that BIOS could not detect any drives except my floppy. I discovered this was because I had set one of the jumpers on the Motherboard to make it possible to power up from the keyboard. After setting this jumper back to the factory position, BIOS detected the HD and CD just fine. On rebooting the system I was informed that the CMOS settings were wrong and to press F1 to load the default Fail Safe settings. I did this and Window’s XP started going through the installation process. Since I was considering using this PC for some audio recording I wanted to load the Standard PC software rather than the ACPI configuration. My understanding is that ACPI can cause some glitches with audio recording.
When setup is loading the setup files I pressed F5 rather than F6 to load SCSI drivers. By pressing F5 you have the option to select either Standard PC or Other. I selected Standard PC and continued with the installation process. After Windows copies the set up files and rebooted, I got a message that said UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME After searching google and Microsoft’s website and trying EVERY SUGGESTION on the internet, I discovered it was the Standard PC selection that was causing the problem. When I reinstalled and continued with the normal ACPI installation I had NO problems. Make sure enable ACPI O/S in your BIOS BEFORE installing Windows with ACPI.
Hope this helps,
Don
www.ArtofLiving.org
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