need bootable and utility to fix unmountable drive volume

[mq1]

Already tried the xp cd and chkdsk /p and chkdsk /r
with no success.
Ran 3 days and would not finish just kept going back to 50 percent and
hanging there.
Tried fixboot with no help.
Need a bootable cd iso with utilities to fix this.
Anyone have any ideals much appreciated as of course there is some
very important work files not backed up.
would like freeware for one time use if anyone knows of anything.
Thanks mq1

[jayb1234]

UBCD or ubcd4win might be what you are looking for. Both are bootable, free and contain a lot of diagnostics and utilities.

Have you tried slaving the hard drive into another computer and seeing if you can get to your files that way?

[mq1]

not yet as it is a laptop and havent figured out how to do it.
Did finish a scan with chkdsk /p in 12 hrs on a 80gig drive.
now when it boots up it says it stopped initialization.So I did the fixboot
with the same results.
Still need help.
Will check out you leads.
Mq1

[c_alvarado]

I have this one BOOT Utility. Its pretty amazing. Has many many features that range from resetting windows passwords to file recovery. Everyone in my IT department has a copy and i highly recommend it to anyone. Here is the link i used to get it. Any problems getting it let me now and ill Use my FTP_mail server to send it to you. Here is the link Hirens Boot CD 7.9

[mq1]

Hey Thanks for the response.I p m you as I need this bad to fix this problem
and I havent found anything like this anywhere.appreciate your help if I could
figure out how to get it.
Thanks mq1

[glc]

Remove the hard drive, take it out of its holder, use an adapter, and slave it into a desktop computer to attempt data recovery. Here's an adapter:

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD

[c_alvarado]

here is a link to the greatest bootable utility out there. This thing does it all Hirens Boot CD
Take the time just to have it anyway