"Unmountable Boot_Volume" bsod

[SirTimmyTimbit]

Hi!

I accidentally dropped my laptop from about 2.5 feet in the air into the carpet/ac adapter and everything was fine. Panicked, I turned off the laptop by holding down the power button.

now, when I boot, the windows logo appears and i get a BSOD with the message "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME".

After some googling, I found out it can be solved by using a bootable XP cd, and using the command fixboot from the recovery console. But when I try to go to recovery console through the repair menu, I get a message saying no hard drive is present.

I ran a ubuntu live cd, and it detected my hard drive perfectly (displaying volume number for main partition, and "hard drive" as my second partition). I could access all the data and backup is a possiblity.

Now, how do I fix this without losing any data? Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Verge]

repair console

chkdsk


fixboot


fixmbr



if that doesn't fix it, repair install

[SirTimmyTimbit]

repair console

chkdsk


fixboot


fixmbr



if that doesn't fix it, repair install

Like I said, I can't get to repair console because I get presented with an "Hard drive not found" error upon pressing R in the setup menu. Thanks for replying!

[lAciDl]

if you try to run repair does it show the drive?

[SirTimmyTimbit]

if you try to run repair does it show the drive?

Nope :(...it tells me it could not find any bootable partition/hard drive

[trinitron6_03]

ok, check your cables.. it may have been bumped so hard that the cable might be somewhat in and out. check that out, if anything when you dropped it, the heads may have crashed and hit the platters.. and that may have just done it. hope that helps.