Unmountable Boot Volume on Dell mini 10

FloFlo

Jnelhams wrote: »

Final solution would be to remove the hard drive, pop it into an external drive caddy and format it from another pc.

I'm not up to that, will have to take it to computer shop and see what they can do. Thanks

Browntoa

think I had to highlight the option to boot from CD drive and hit enter even though it was connected to USB

Jnelhams

FloFlo wrote: »

I'm not up to that, will have to take it to computer shop and see what they can do. Thanks

It'll cost you upwards of £50 in a pc shop.

Try this..

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19278283.aspx

FloFlo

Jnelhams wrote: »

It'll cost you upwards of £50 in a pc shop.

Try this..

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19278283.aspx

Thanks for the link, I have seached the forums there as well but still not booting from drive.

Perhaps its not worth repairing and I should look at replacing, but I need my emails from itso looks like I'm stuck with repairing it.

FloFlo

This was an answer on dell forums to not booting from drive:

You need to turn on [COLOR=#3b5f7e !important][COLOR=#3b5f7e !important]USB[/COLOR][/COLOR] Emulation in the BIOS if it's not already on.

How do I turn on usb emulation in BIOS? I can get into Bios but don't understand the USB emulation.

cubegame

If you have the option of removable device in the boot menu it should be fine. My Mini 10 is quite fussy about booting from CD/DVD. Try another bootable disc.

ddoris

I think it's under integrated devices - 3 options??

FloFlo

If I f12 I get the boot menu:

+Hard drive
Network
CD/DVD/CD-RW
Removable Devices
Diagnostics

If I f2 I get the boot menu in set up utility:

USB storage
+Hard drive
Network
CD/DVD/CD-RW
Removable devices

I have selected CD/DVD/CD-RW in both neither worked; I have tried removable Devices in both didn't work; I have tried USB storage in f2 didn't work.

I am selecting them right i.e I select the option and f10 (save and exit)?

Nothing happens at all in disk drive.

I have run diagnostics from the f12 menu it says no problems.

cubegame

Have you got another computer to make a boot disc on?

FloFlo

cubegame wrote: »

Have you got another computer to make a boot disc on?

My daughter's laptop but she is vista not xp and will murder me if I break her computer.