Hi My Laptop just won't boot up properly every time it starts it comes back with the sames warning unmountable boot volume Please can anyone give me ideas on how to get around this - would like to reformat the C:\ drive if / when I can get on to the pc. Thanks in advance for any help
Sounds like a corrupt HDD. Suggest looking at the following site and running the tests listed to try and recover the HDD. http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000630.htm If it fails then either try a fresh install from CD or get a new HDD and do a fresh install on that. Either way, if it is shot, you are going to need a bootable copy of Windows.
Get into your bios at startup and see if it recognizes your HDD. Let it find it, save settings and try again. If that doesn’t work look up a search on loading a MBR on your HDD. You will need a bootable disk and I believe it goes FDISK /MBR By the way, MBR means memory boot record. Correction, late night mistake... Master Boot Record.
Hi I have made a boot disk - eventually 6 disks - but that fails to work as it does not appear to recognise the CD Rom drive! I have check BIOS setup and ensured that it boots from CD Rom - but no joy - but the light does flash on!! Is it likely to be the HHD or the CD ROM or both?? Plus any idea what I can expect to pay for each of these as it is a fairly old laptop Cheers in advance and best wishes to all for 2006
Do you have an Original Windows XP CD disk? Have you tried that or maybe a friends to see if you can boot from the CD first?
what brand laptop, Dose cd rom light blink fast and dose it sound like it spins fast and then slow and then fast,if so most likely cd rom is working sound like a IBM or Toshiba hard drive.did you ever get a blue screen mesg, saying windows is shuting down .
I had the same problem with my desktop before and i found this link and i fixed it and now it works fine the link applies to xp and xp pro users only http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297185/en-us
