unmountable boot

[smith]

OK, i really need help with this. I have that damn blue
screen (not of death) that says unmountable boot. I have
already run the recovery and did a chkdsk /p and a
chkdsk /r, as well as a fixboot...and all of those
resulted in the same scree: UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME. I
know my hard driveisnt friend, becasue it worked a couple
days ago, i think it got hit too hard by my movers (damn
movers!). I appreciate any help on this matter, as i
need to recover those files (without deleteing anything
from the hard drive...thanks

smitty

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Smitty;
Power off, open the case and reseat the hard drive IDE ribbon cable at
both ends.
If that fails:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315403

Otherwise go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and
download their hard drive diagnostics.

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"smith" > wrote in message
...
> OK, i really need help with this. I have that damn blue
> screen (not of death) that says unmountable boot. I have
> already run the recovery and did a chkdsk /p and a
> chkdsk /r, as well as a fixboot...and all of those
> resulted in the same scree: UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME. I
> know my hard driveisnt friend, becasue it worked a couple
> days ago, i think it got hit too hard by my movers (damn
> movers!). I appreciate any help on this matter, as i
> need to recover those files (without deleteing anything
> from the hard drive...thanks
>
> smitty