XP advises "unmountable boot volume"

[Kerry O'Reilly]

My windows XP has stopped. The error message
is "unmountable_boot_volume". The stop message
is :0XOOOOOOED (0X80AA6E30,OXC000009C,
0X00000000,OX00000000).

The system will not start under safe mode. Can anyone
advise what has happened?

Kerry

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Kerry;
Power off, open the case and reseat the hard drive IDE ribbon cable at
both ends.
If that fails:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q297185&
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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"Kerry O'Reilly" > wrote in message
...
> My windows XP has stopped. The error message
> is "unmountable_boot_volume". The stop message
> is :0XOOOOOOED (0X80AA6E30,OXC000009C,
> 0X00000000,OX00000000).
>
> The system will not start under safe mode. Can anyone
> advise what has happened?
>
> Kerry