Boot Disks for Error

[Exit Strategy v1]

Last night I went to bed and decided to turn off my gaming rig for a change and woke up this morning and got the following error:

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

I can not locate my XP Pro disc in my cd tower so I have no clue where it might be so, I got the 6 floppy disks and created the xp pro boot disks. Assuming the boot disks can fix this problem.... How do I use the boot disks?

My Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+
DFI Lanparty Mobo
nVidia 7800GT
2GB g.skill extreme series
Antec Power Supply
160GB Western Digital HD

[DougL]

It would be of benefit if you could locate your XP CD then follow this:

When booting up to Win XP you may get a error that reads "Unmountable Boot Volume". This is probably because your boot.ini file is messed up.
So, what do you do about it, panic and try to mount your boot in your computer...... No that is probably not a good idea.

You can boot to the XP cd and when you see the Welcome to setup press the letter R
You will get a dos prompt
Then type "chkdsk /p" without the quotes and hit enter
When that is done type "fixboot" and hit enter
"Y" and enter at the prompt
Then type "exit" and hit enter
The system will now reboot into Windows

If for some reason that don't work for you, you can boot to the recovery console like above and...
Type "chkdsk /r" then enter
When done type "exit" and hit enter.
This will take longer, but the system should boot back into Windows.


Hope this helps

Doug

[flanzig1]

check your CD/DVD drive for a CD in it. The optical drive is probably set to 1st boot device.

[Exit Strategy v1]

removable is set to first. i am going to get a friends xp pro disc and try from there.