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Boot the Recovery console without CD?

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ndee

Lifer
I'm sitting at my girlfriends place and when I try to start her computer, the infamous "unmountable boot volume"-BSOD pops up. I know how to get rid of that (fixboot, fixmbr from the recovery console) but the only problem is, I don't have a CD at her place at the moment. Anyone knows how I could still somehow start the recovery console? BTW, it's a Dell machine, about a year old, she doesn't know where the CDs are at the moment so yeah.

Thanks in advance.
 
I will do that, thanks. She found the CD after some searching. Fixboot/fixmbr didn't help, I couldn't make "dir" on the normal C:\. There are some bad blocks on the harddisk but I hope I can fix that with chkdsk. First thing I will do: Get her an external Harddisk and copy all of her ripped CDs(about 200) to the harddisk 😀 She nearly killed me when I told her that everything might be lost 😀
 
Well...that's not a bad idea (backing up). If the hard disk is developing bad blocks you will want to do that as soon as possible. I think only a full format can "remagnetize" the bad blocks. Maybe a chkdsk with cluster check and repair options can do it but I'm not certain.

I suspect the superblock or partition table was damaged. In that case maybe chkdsk can fix it up.
 
chkdsk /r could fix the problem, took some hours though 🙂 Anyway, I gonna order a harddisk for her this weekend. Thanks anyway 🙂
 
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