Unique unmountable boot volume error
I work at circuit city and generally dont run into this problem with my installations, but one of my personal friends obtained a used computer, a hp a320n we reformatted a 120 gb hard drive for him and everything was working fine... until he wanted to try an old video card. the first problem was that he disabled his system monitor going through display properties, monitor, advanced and then switched the device usage to disable on the monitor. so naturally when he restarted his computer he saw nothing. so i switched his bios settings so that it would go through a pci graphics card, (which turned out to not work, the graphics card had something spill on it and was defective) so now hes getting an unmountable boot volume error, however i have done the chkdsk /r on both of the volumes that pop up with an extra xp home edition cd i have, and ive also hit fixboot on both partitions, it still will not go into windows, im doing this after work on my free time and need some advice~
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what it does it basically replace all teh system files and such, but it does not mess with any of the current settings, won't delete your files.
its a 120 gb drive, using about 45 gb, so its not too full, the error code it gets is one that shows that one of the drivers is messed up (0x0000032) however when i used the recovery console nothing worked.
hed prefer if it was possible to save his files, however im beginning to think a recovery might just be the best option, i doubt his hp recovery with enable a soft recovery however.
go to the hdd manufacture's site, they usually have utility to download and put on floppy to test the drives.
if neither of these things work, then go ahead and reinstall windows xp over the current xp install so that you can back everything up, then format and reinstall
This will work from a bootable CD, too.
I just run the Analyse program, let it (hopefully) find the damaged partition, then have it recover it.
If you need a bootable floppy disk (ie NT, W2K, XP users), try www.bootdisk.com.
Maybe he can try a lower level of formating...it's pretty risky though I think because it has the heads move lower...what do you think?
Isn't there a program that will rewrite everything back to 1's and 0's? I'm not too sure I have never used it before...
If the computer has a floppy drive it will be simpler to just make a bootable floppy, copy the contents of TestDisk's DOS folder to it, then boot and go.
If the TestDisk files won't fit, just copy them to a second floppy, boot from the first (bootable) floppy you made, then switch out the disks.
anyone familiar with this burner that can specify how i would make the entire cd bootable from startup so i can see if anything is repairable on the damaged partition?
"I work at circuit city"
people assume YOU know what you are doing. They are paying $60 to $100 an hour for your supposed expert advice.
And from your posts you are not even close.
Scary.
Tex
Circuit City only has us perform hardware installations, and software installations, models already in operation, im doing this for a friend, for free, and id rather ask for help and advice where needed then run around in the dark.
and we dont charge 60-100 an hour, we charge by and per installation, 20 for software, 30 for virus or spyware removal, etc
RPG Fan: Since you seem determined to make a bootable CD, I'm assuming you don't have a FDD in the computer. I haven't used the CD burning software you referred to, so it will be hard to advise you on that. You might check out How to Make Bootable CDs. It's a simple two-page guide that should help you get started. Let us know how it goes.