crashed laptop

my laptop has crashed in a spectacular way i cannot reboot it the error
message reads "unmountable_boot_volume" i cannot find my xp cd so how can i
get a copy of one i have tried using a friends one but i still cannot reboot
from cd any suggestions?

I see no way to recover without booting the system. What tools do you have
available for that?

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Mark L. Ferguson
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"karenab" <karenab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> my laptop has crashed in a spectacular way i cannot reboot it the error
> message reads "unmountable_boot_volume" i cannot find my xp cd so how can
> i
> get a copy of one i have tried using a friends one but i still cannot
> reboot
> from cd any suggestions?

probably need to boot with
a windows cd, log on to the
recovery console and simply
run a chkdsk.

here is more info:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302

let us know if you encounter
any more difficulties.


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"karenab" <karenab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4F1FE092-AFCF-4962-A124-A98E7904CD0E@microsoft.com...
> my laptop has crashed in a spectacular way i cannot reboot it the error
> message reads "unmountable_boot_volume" i cannot find my xp cd so how can i
> get a copy of one i have tried using a friends one but i still cannot reboot
> from cd any suggestions?

qz i have tried to download the xp cd from the utorrent site and thats all i
have got

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> I see no way to recover without booting the system. What tools do you have
> available for that?
>
> --
> Mark L. Ferguson
> e-mail subject line must include "QZ" or it's deleted
> ..
> "karenab" <karenab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4F1FE092-AFCF-4962-A124-A98E7904CD0E@microsoft.com...
> > my laptop has crashed in a spectacular way i cannot reboot it the error
> > message reads "unmountable_boot_volume" i cannot find my xp cd so how can
> > i
> > get a copy of one i have tried using a friends one but i still cannot
> > reboot
> > from cd any suggestions?
>
>
>

If you cannot boot using another genuine winxp cd, and the boot order is set
to boot from cd, then you have a hardware problem

"karenab" <karenab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news03E8E09-C642-48BD-BF3C-E7B901AC3625@microsoft.com...
> qz i have tried to download the xp cd from the utorrent site and thats all
> i
> have got
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
>
>> I see no way to recover without booting the system. What tools do you
>> have
>> available for that?
>>
>> --
>> Mark L. Ferguson
>> e-mail subject line must include "QZ" or it's deleted
>> ..
>> "karenab" <karenab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:4F1FE092-AFCF-4962-A124-A98E7904CD0E@microsoft.com...
>> > my laptop has crashed in a spectacular way i cannot reboot it the error
>> > message reads "unmountable_boot_volume" i cannot find my xp cd so how
>> > can
>> > i
>> > get a copy of one i have tried using a friends one but i still cannot
>> > reboot
>> > from cd any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>

I too, had a crashed laptop with a corupt file. It would not reboot no
matter what I did with my XP setup disk. So finally one night I put my Vista
setup Disk in the drive and it started to read it. I left it in all night
and the next morning I was able to boot it and reinstalled XP. One bad
result, I can't get any sound and I get an error message that I have no
Audio. I have been working on this for about 4 days and I finally came
accross something in WinDVD that said with Intervideo Windows would not play
any music. So I am going to uninstall it and see what happens.
--
Richard L. Lanning


"db ´¯`·.. ><)))º>` .. ." wrote:

> probably need to boot with
> a windows cd, log on to the
> recovery console and simply
> run a chkdsk.
>
> here is more info:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302
>
> let us know if you encounter
> any more difficulties.
>
>
> --
>
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>
>
> ..
>
>
> "karenab" <karenab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4F1FE092-AFCF-4962-A124-A98E7904CD0E@microsoft.com...
> > my laptop has crashed in a spectacular way i cannot reboot it the error
> > message reads "unmountable_boot_volume" i cannot find my xp cd so how can i
> > get a copy of one i have tried using a friends one but i still cannot reboot
> > from cd any suggestions?
>
>