Unmountable boot volume

robbiebegg

I have a dell laptop running xp home and now have blue screen with above message, have tried booting in safe mode, have tried to boot from boot disc but no luck. I have read on windows sight to use installation disc but no disc came with laptop, I have xp pro disc can I use this,Please help.

Quincy_3

Answer here http://www.techtips4u.com/kb/sw/SW00014.htm

Browntoa

also, if you are getting the STOP 0x00000ED message

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm#How%20to%20Repair%20the%20Boot%20Sector:

try this first

If XP won't start it may be due to a damaged boot sector or a missing or corrupt ntldr or ntdetect.com files.
To replace damaged ntldr and ntdetect.com you can copy fresh files from the XP CD using the COPY command. Boot with the XP CD and enter the Recovery Console (as above).

At the Command Prompt type the following (where "X" is your CD-Rom drive letter) allowing the files to overwrite the old files

COPY X:\i386\NTLDR C:
COPY X:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:



if that does not work then



To repair a damaged Boot Sector at the command prompt type FIXBOOT and press Enter. Then answer "Y"

to boot from the XP CD you may need to change your boot settings in BIOS (normally F2 on boot up) to boot from CD drive first

you need a XP home disk if you have XP home

the new Dell Laptops come with a restore partition, you will lose all you data if you use that but if you have nothing important then hit CTRL and F11 when you see the blue DELL bar at the top of your screen on boot up