unmountable_boot_volume

[blazerazor]

This is a error I get one a fairly new emachine pc thats never been tampered with (sticker on case door).

So I rest to faults in bios and still no boot. Any Ideas whats wrong?

Does anyone know of a site that has a database of

" STOP 0x000000ED (0xaaaaaaaa,0xbbbbbbbb,0xcccccccc,0xdddddddd) UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME "

error messages?


....update[now it locks up the boot splash screen, the bar fills and it stops] .. going to try a repair next.

 

[Regs]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=34&threadid=1292555&highlight_key=y&keyword1=unmountable%5Fboot%5Fvolume

 

[Jeff7]

Microsoft's website, actually. Type in the first part of the error - Stop 0x000000ED - in the Search box there, and it'll give a listing of topics with that error.

 

[blazerazor]

Thanks a million guys & Thanks for the (quick) reply.

 

[blazerazor]

Ouch!!! "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems" message after running Recovery Console: "chkdsk /r". Could this be a bad sector on the harddisk (stops at 25% of chkdsk)?

update:["fixboot" didnt work either] 🙁

..... do you think Knoppix could fix this???

 

[Regs]

Seems like your drive went bad. Time to get a new hard drive and a freash install of Windows.

 

[blazerazor]

I hope not. The drive is a Seagate 80gig (5400 i think) model: st380020a.

And its a friends daughter pc. New nice computer, looks never used. xp, amd2000, 512ram, 80gig. Emachine.

 

[Sideswipe001]

Well you can try to checkdisk it; boot to the recovery console and you can run it from there. But, I'd tend to agree - I think the HD is dead or dying.

 

[blazerazor]

Do you think I could some how get in to save some photos off it??

If I used a 98bootdisk and formated and fdisked would that help??

 

[MrPabulum]

That happened to me after enabling large system cache. NTFS partition don't seem to get along with it well. Fresh install fixed the problem. 😀