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Geoff
December 11th 03, 09:54 PM
Can anyone expain how to boot to the disk? I have the
windows CD still.
>-----Original Message-----
> Try booting to the disk and enter recovery,tap r
> at the curser type:CHKDSK C: /F
> C: being the hard drive. The other try is to go to the
> BIOS,exit page,select "load set-up defaults",then save
> changes and exit BIOS.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I recently got the error message UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
>>***STOP: 0x000000ED
>>(0x81B97E30,0xC000009C,0x00000000,0x00000000). This
>>happened after getting to the Windows XP Home Edition
>>screen with the little green bar and then it would just
>>sit there. The first time I started it didnt give me the
>>error it just stayed on that screen. Then I tried to
>start
>>in safe mode and all the options there (last known good
>>configuration, ect.) In safe mode it would just start
>>running the file names and would afreeze somewhere in
>>between. These didn't give me the error either. I finaly
>>got the error after trying everything a few times. On
>>Microsofts support site it says that it might be a
>problem
>>with UDMA hard disk controller which I don't think it
is,
>>because I'm prety sure I'm not using that, or it says it
>>might be because of a damaged file system in which case
I
>>should restart with the recovery console. I have my
>>windows CD but I don't know what I do now. It might help
>>to know that this has happened before, without getting
>the
>>error, just freezing at that Windows screen, and I could
>>start in safe mode then restart regularly and it would
>>work. I hope you can help me, sorry for the un-organized
>>description, it's too early for computer problems.
>>
>>Geoff
>>.
>>
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