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unmountable boot volume

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Martin

Flightless Bird
Have Dell 1520 laptop with Windows XP Home Edition. Turned on today get
unmountable boot volume blue screen 0x000000ED
(0x8acb2e30,0xc000009c,0x00000000, 0x00000000). Restart and press F8. No
matter what selection I make, always ends up at same blue screen. Can not get
command prompt or get into safe mode. I can not use any of Microsofts
suggestions as I can not get past blue screen. Put reinstall CD in drive, but
doesnt load automatically. I have not installed any new programs or hardware
in recent weeks. Please respond. Marty
 
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philo

Flightless Bird
Martin wrote:
> Have Dell 1520 laptop with Windows XP Home Edition. Turned on today get
> unmountable boot volume blue screen 0x000000ED
> (0x8acb2e30,0xc000009c,0x00000000, 0x00000000). Restart and press F8. No
> matter what selection I make, always ends up at same blue screen. Can not get
> command prompt or get into safe mode. I can not use any of Microsofts
> suggestions as I can not get past blue screen. Put reinstall CD in drive, but
> doesnt load automatically. I have not installed any new programs or hardware
> in recent weeks. Please respond. Marty



looks like the harddrive could be bad


you can run diagnostics for exact info

see this


http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~deke/laptopsupport/manuals/d600/diag.htm
 
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sgopus

Flightless Bird
It may be, your Primary Hard drive has failed, get a new one and hopefully
you have on hand your original install cd , if not you will have to contact
the supplier of your pc and see if they will be nice enough to supply you
with one.

"Martin" wrote:

> Have Dell 1520 laptop with Windows XP Home Edition. Turned on today get
> unmountable boot volume blue screen 0x000000ED
> (0x8acb2e30,0xc000009c,0x00000000, 0x00000000). Restart and press F8. No
> matter what selection I make, always ends up at same blue screen. Can not get
> command prompt or get into safe mode. I can not use any of Microsofts
> suggestions as I can not get past blue screen. Put reinstall CD in drive, but
> doesnt load automatically. I have not installed any new programs or hardware
> in recent weeks. Please respond. Marty
 
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Patrick Keenan

Flightless Bird
"Martin" <Martin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B5660C59-E913-44DB-8CDA-0BEA8854E428@microsoft.com...
> Have Dell 1520 laptop with Windows XP Home Edition. Turned on today get
> unmountable boot volume blue screen 0x000000ED
> (0x8acb2e30,0xc000009c,0x00000000, 0x00000000). Restart and press F8. No
> matter what selection I make, always ends up at same blue screen. Can not
> get
> command prompt or get into safe mode. I can not use any of Microsofts
> suggestions as I can not get past blue screen. Put reinstall CD in drive,
> but
> doesnt load automatically. I have not installed any new programs or
> hardware
> in recent weeks. Please respond. Marty


You may want hands-on assistance with this. The very first step, if there
is data on the drive that you wish to keep, is to remove the drive, attach
it to another system that has enough space, and copy the data off. If you
use an imaging program (such as the Acronis TrueImage free trial version),
you can do this in - often under an hour.

If you skip this step, it's quite possible that any reinstall or chkdsk
efforts you take may block access to or corrupt or erase data.

For the CD not booting, you're trying to follow the MS directions and get
into the Recovery Console to run chkdsk.

Power off, then turn the power back on. Carefully watch the screen for a
message that says "Press <key name> for Setup". Press that key - if you
miss it, power off and try again. You can only get to this from power-on,
not from reboots.

In Setup, look for the boot sequence and put the CD drive first. Exit,
saving changes, and restart with the install CD in the drive. *carefully*
follow the directions.

Note that not all setup CDs are the same, and if you can't get into the
Recovery Console, you may have a "restore" rather than a "reinstall" CD.
You can, as it happens, use any XP install CD for this purpose - Home or
Pro, Retail, OEM or Upgrade. So if yours won't work, you can borrow one.

As well, if you attach the drive to another system for backup before doing
the work, you can run chkdsk at that time and not use the install CD.

HTH
-pk
 
H

HeyBub

Flightless Bird
Martin wrote:
> Have Dell 1520 laptop with Windows XP Home Edition. Turned on today
> get unmountable boot volume blue screen 0x000000ED
> (0x8acb2e30,0xc000009c,0x00000000, 0x00000000). Restart and press F8.
> No matter what selection I make, always ends up at same blue screen.
> Can not get command prompt or get into safe mode. I can not use any
> of Microsofts suggestions as I can not get past blue screen. Put
> reinstall CD in drive, but doesnt load automatically. I have not
> installed any new programs or hardware in recent weeks. Please
> respond. Marty


See this Micosoft Technote

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315403
 
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Jose

Flightless Bird
On Jan 4, 7:46 pm, Martin <Mar...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Have Dell 1520 laptop with Windows XP Home Edition. Turned on today get
> unmountable boot volume blue screen 0x000000ED
> (0x8acb2e30,0xc000009c,0x00000000, 0x00000000). Restart and press F8. No
> matter what selection I make, always ends up at same blue screen. Can notget
> command prompt or get into safe mode. I  can not use any of Microsofts
> suggestions as I can not get past blue screen. Put reinstall CD in drive,but
> doesnt load automatically. I have not installed any new programs or hardware
> in recent weeks. Please respond. Marty


First, you need to get your system booting on something, and I would
start by booting the XP Recovery Console.

Was the issue preceded by a power interruption, aborted restart, or
improper shutdown?
These can cause corruption in the file system which must be fixed
before you do anything
else.

If any of those events have occurred, you should boot into the Windows
Recovery Console
using a bootable XP installation CD, or create on a bootable XP
Recovery Console CD. This
is not the same as any recovery disks that might have come a store
bought system.

For each of your hard disks, you should then run:

chkdsk /r

You can make a bootable Recovery Console CD by downloading an ISO file
and burning it to a CD.

The bootable ISO image file you need to download is called:

xp_rec_con.iso

Download the ISO file from here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ueyyzfymmig

Use this free and easy program to create your bootable CD:

http://www.imgburn.com/

It would be a good idea to test your bootable CD on a computer that is
working.

You may need to adjust the computer BIOS settings to use the CD ROM
drive
as the first boot device instead of the hard disk. These adjustments
are
made before Windows tries to load. If you miss it, you will have to
reboot
the system again.

When you boot on the CD, follow the prompts:

Press any key to boot from CD...

The Windows Setup... will proceed.

Press 'R' to enter the Recovery Console.

Select the installation you want to access (usually 1: C:/WINDOWS)

You may be asked to enter the Administrator password (usually empty).

You should be in the C:/WINDOWS folder. This is the same as the
C:/WINDOWS folder you see in explorer.

RC allows basic file commands - copy, rename, replace, delete,
cd, chkdsk, fixboot, fixmbr, etc.

From the command prompt window run the chkdsk command on the drive
where
Windows is installed to try to repair any problems on the afflicted
drive.

Running chkdsk is fine to run even if it doesn't find any problems.

Assuming your boot drive is C, run the following command:

chkdsk C: /r

Let chkdsk finish and correct any problems it might find. It may take
a long
time to complete or appear to be 'stuck'. Be patient. If the HDD
light is
still flashing, it is doing something. Keep an eye on the percentage
amount to
be sure it is still making progress.

Remove the CD and type 'exit' to leave the RC and restart the
computer.

You do not have to adjust the BIOS again to boot on the HDD since the
CD will
not be present.
 
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