Help!! Blue screen of death

[Guest]

Hey all, I really need some help. Since this early afternoon, any time I start up my Dell Inspiron 1501 I get the blue screen of death with the error message "Unmountable Boot Volume." Using a different computer I've googled this and have come across a number of pages with a nice step by step to fix it. Like repairing installation of Win XP. but unfortunately, I am unable to load past the blue screen. I restart and try to start in Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Set Mode with Command Prompt, Last Known good connection, and standard mode, all end at the blue screen of death.

I have no idea how to get beyond the blue screen to load with the Win XP disc.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
KT

 

[jeanluclariviere]

If you boot your PC with the win XP disc inside the drive, it should automatically redirect to the boot up function. You can pick repair from there - However, if your computer is blue-screening due to imporper overclock - it may blue screen while repairing.

If that is the case, i recommend getting into the bios quickly, and resenting everything to default, or resetting it via the CMOS jumper on your motherboard.

Goodluck.

 

[Guest]

Hi thanks for the help, unfortunately it didn't do much. After exiting startup, I tried safe mode and start up as normal, and both led to the blue screen. I've had the disc in the drive for the last 50 times I've restarted the computer and nothing happened with it.

 

[jeanluclariviere]

is it a pirated copy of XP ? lol if yes, that may be your problem.

 

[Guest]

nope, it is the copy that came with my computer

 

[vladtepes]

Check in your bios settings if AHCI is enabled. If thats the case turn SATA mode to ide and repar XP

 

[vladtepes]

If you can connect the disc to a desktop and do a full chkdsk on the drive. Then set SATA mode back to AHCI. AHCI is not supported by XP so it needs a driver. maybe the driver file was lost an thats why the notebook cannot "see" the disk

 

[RJR]

Is your Bios set to BOOT from your disk FIRST and then Hdd?