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#1: error code Author: Cycotic=RS=, Location: Leicestershire ,UK

Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 8:38 pm
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hey all, i have a prob with a friends computer and cant seem to work it out, his powerpack went so i replaced that and now it's booting up, i now get this blue screen saying "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" (he was also getting this blue page before his powerpack went. Tried booting the computer up in safe-mode but still comes back to this error screen.

any ideas?

cheers

phil

#2: Re: error code Author: sk1nny=RS=,

Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 9:02 pm
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Check the Hard Drive cable is still connected properly, it might have come loose when changing the power supply, or maybe you haven't plugged power back in the the Hard Drive.

If not it may need a re-install of the o/s

#3: Re: error code Author: Joker=RS=, Location: England

Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 7:20 am
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sk1nny=RS= @ Mon May 10, 2010 10:01 pm wrote:

Check the Hard Drive cable is still connected properly, it might have come loose when changing the power supply, or maybe you haven't plugged power back in the the Hard Drive.

If not it may need a re-install of the o/s

totally agree john , plus u need see if anything else blew as well as the power supply

try one stick of ram at a time , try an old gfx card if u have one to hand , also then an old hard drive.

like john said thou , as clean o/s is a must

Morc

#4: Re: error code Author: Hilander=RS=, Location: UK Diss

Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 11:50 am
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Joker=RS= @ Tue May 11, 2010 7:20 am wrote:

sk1nny=RS= @ Mon May 10, 2010 10:01 pm wrote:

and as morc says

if all else fails

do what i did

buy a new one lol

if you have another hard drive try putting that in before any reinstall or format so you dont loose anything.

Andy

ps harddrives are cheap as hell these days

#5: Re: error code Author: Cycotic=RS=, Location: Leicestershire ,UK

Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 3:01 pm
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checked and double checked all cables on hd and all other connections, i'll try some of your suggetions and see what happens,

#6: Re: error code Author: DPC=RS=, Location: Liverpool

Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 4:26 pm
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is it booting from the right hard drive if he has multiple hard drives

#7: Re: error code Author: Cycotic=RS=, Location: Leicestershire ,UK

Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 4:50 pm
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just the one hard drive buddy

#8: Re: error code Author: DPC=RS=, Location: Liverpool

Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 4:52 pm
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have you tried booting from a windows disk/recovery disk, see if you can repair/run a diagnosis test

#9: Re: error code Author: CrestedNewt=RS=, Location: Essex

Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 6:07 pm
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If you have this to hand......

Take the drive out and put it into an external caddy. Run a Checkdisk on this drive, checking all sectors. It sounds like there may be some lost sectors or Sector 0 has become corrupted.

Have you tried tapping F8 during boot up (prior to Windows loading) and selecting Safe mode. From here you can then run the checkdisk locally if the drive is recognised.

Recommendation - buy a new Hard Disk, reinstall the OS and then have this drive as a secondary to recover the data required (e-mails, docs, photies, music etc)

#10: Re: error code Author: Symtec=RS=, Location: Hampshire

Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 6:09 pm
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hi
"unmountable boot volume" means the hard drive has read errors on it and can not read the full boot sector. I suspect that the PSU has been failing for quite a while causing the HD to Fail.
Sometimes a full reformat can map out these errors but don't count on it.

Greg

#11: Re: error code Author: Cycotic=RS=, Location: Leicestershire ,UK

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 3:08 pm
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cheers and thanks for your help, i've since been told that the PSU has been bad for a while and this error message has appeared many times, so as i first thought totally re-installl...........what makes it worse it's his business computer.......and never had backups done for documents etc..... :spank:

#12: Re: error code Author: CrestedNewt=RS=, Location: Essex

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 4:09 pm
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You should be able to read the data from an external caddy. If needs be - send me the disk as I have data recovery tools

#13: Re: error code Author: sharp, Location: Scousepool

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 7:47 am
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Use XP recovery disc to boot into repair mode, then move to the C: drive on the command line, and run chkdsk /r and then fixmbr.

after this then type bootmgr, and check to see if your OS is listed, if not search for installations and add the os to the boot manager Smile

tom.. and hello all Smile

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