Hey guys,
My brother has a copy of XP Media Center Edition on his older system, and he started getting the BSOD with the Unmountable_Boot_Volume problem. This seems to be somewhat common, and what people recommend is putting in your XP cd, going to the install menu, and choosing R-Repair. Then when you're in the console, you type in chkdsk /p and then fixboot.
I tried all this, but whenever I did chkdsk it said something like "there are one or more unrecoverable issues with the drive". I did fixmbr, and this did nothing, I also did the fixboot thing, and this seemed to change something. Now when I do chkdsk /p, it shows the stats of the drive, but I still cannot get into windows.
NOW (after doing the fixboot thing), whenever I start up the comp, it goes through the motherboard fine, but then, right where it would show the Windows XP loading screen, it simply says something along the lines of "NTLDR Missing. Hit any key to restart." Before I did anything in the repair console, it would at least show the XP loading screen before giving a blue screen.
Now it's like the hard drive is erased or something - the computer doesn't see any operating system on the HD.
I also tried this hard drive in another computer to see if it was something else, but it still showed the same error. So it is definitely something to do with the hard drive.
Any idea what I did and if I can still recover this drive?
FrPSh
My brother has a copy of XP Media Center Edition on his older system, and he started getting the BSOD with the Unmountable_Boot_Volume problem. This seems to be somewhat common, and what people recommend is putting in your XP cd, going to the install menu, and choosing R-Repair. Then when you're in the console, you type in chkdsk /p and then fixboot.
I tried all this, but whenever I did chkdsk it said something like "there are one or more unrecoverable issues with the drive". I did fixmbr, and this did nothing, I also did the fixboot thing, and this seemed to change something. Now when I do chkdsk /p, it shows the stats of the drive, but I still cannot get into windows.
NOW (after doing the fixboot thing), whenever I start up the comp, it goes through the motherboard fine, but then, right where it would show the Windows XP loading screen, it simply says something along the lines of "NTLDR Missing. Hit any key to restart." Before I did anything in the repair console, it would at least show the XP loading screen before giving a blue screen.
Now it's like the hard drive is erased or something - the computer doesn't see any operating system on the HD.
I also tried this hard drive in another computer to see if it was something else, but it still showed the same error. So it is definitely something to do with the hard drive.
Any idea what I did and if I can still recover this drive?
FrPSh