plagiarist
Senior member
I'm trying to fix this guy's computer, he said he had an unmountable boot volume error, and ran XP.
So I bring over my XP disk, boot to the disk and run chkdsk /p, then fixboot.
But he has two choices on the hard drive to run it in.
miniNT
and
I386
I ran it on both, and it said it rewrote the boot sectors, but it still didn't work.
Then I ran chkdsk /r on both, and it said the boot sector was corrupt on the miniNT, said it repaired it..but I still can't boot windows, it loops..restarts automatically.
I know I can use the windows >>Break to try and stop that, but it still probably won't work.
Any ideas?
Oh, and he doesn't HAVE his Xp disk, because it was a walmart special, and he's running Home and I only have the disk for Pro..do you think that's why the fixboot won't work?
So I bring over my XP disk, boot to the disk and run chkdsk /p, then fixboot.
But he has two choices on the hard drive to run it in.
miniNT
and
I386
I ran it on both, and it said it rewrote the boot sectors, but it still didn't work.
Then I ran chkdsk /r on both, and it said the boot sector was corrupt on the miniNT, said it repaired it..but I still can't boot windows, it loops..restarts automatically.
I know I can use the windows >>Break to try and stop that, but it still probably won't work.
Any ideas?
Oh, and he doesn't HAVE his Xp disk, because it was a walmart special, and he's running Home and I only have the disk for Pro..do you think that's why the fixboot won't work?
