Hi Pete

Try This I just had to do this to my brother's pc it worked great very
quick. Good luck Gary Aguiar

Unmountable Boot Volume" Win XP


kb# SW00014 When booting up to Win XP you may get a error that reads
"Unmountable Boot Volume". This is probably because your boot.ini file is
messed up.

So, what do you do about it, panic and try to mount your boot in your
computer...... No that is probably not a good idea.

You can boot to the XP cd and when you see the Welcome to setup press the
letter R
You will get a dos prompt
Then type "chkdsk /p" without the quotes and hit enter
When that is done type "fixboot" and hit enter
"Y" and enter at the prompt
Then type "exit" and hit enter
The system will now reboot into Windows

If for some reason that don't work for you, you can boot to the recovery
console like above and...
Type "chkdsk /r" then enter
When done type "exit" and hit enter.
This will take longer, but the system should boot back into Windows.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Sowerby" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:54 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Unmountable Boot Volume


Hi there

I'm trying to install a new 20Gb HDD in a PC I'm building for my son. The
O/S is Windows XP Professional and I'm booting right from scratch using the
CD-Rom.

The HDD formats (NTFS) and then copies the initial files no problem but when
it comes to do its first re-boot, after the first "splash screen", I get the
dreaded blue screen with the message at the the top
"Unmountable_Boot_Volume". The Recovery program says that Windows has been
installed, but it just won't boot.

I've tried re-installing again, even using FAT32 and I still have the same
problem, although I am using the same install cd each time. Would it be
better to fomat and fdisk the HDD first using some other method?

I may have done something when I've been playing around with it but is there
a way to get round this or is the disc "caputt"

Thanks for any help.

Pete..........

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