Re: stop 0x000000ED unmountable_boot_volume

I just got through with this very thing....i put in the xp disk, went to the
install (not 'r' for recovery console) where the partitions are shown. Then
used repair option from there. XP notified me that it made changes (fixed) a
hard drive issue. When it rebooted i took out the disk and let it try from
the harddrive again. TADA!!!! fixed the MBR I guess. All worked prfectly
after that.



"Simon" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:HsEFg.7301$ri1.7194@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dave wrote:
Thanks Dave, I have a boot cd here with that on and will give that a
go.
Thought this customer job was nice and easy, famous last words. I
collected the PC yesterday, fixed the boot issue or so I thought,
returned
the PC this morning to find the power supply had decided to break in
the
gap between last night when powered down and this morning. Brought the
PC
back fitted a replacement PSU only to find this disk issue returning.
Grr!! :) That'll teach me to try and save the customer money by not
bunging a new disk in straight away.
simon

Awwwww shit. That probably means that the PSU died slowly, and took the
hard drive with it. I hope it didn't kill anything else in the
rocess. -Dave


yeah, that's what I told the customer, hopefully they believe me. I was
wondering if I ghosted the existing disk while it's actually working if
that would be good to restore to the new one, or would it be safer to
run the transfer files and settings wizard, install xp on the new
machine then import the existing settings ?
cheers simon


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