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KingTomis
09-01-2007, 02:08 PM
ok, last night my laptop was fine, shut it off, go to bed.

wake up and turn it on and I get a black screen saying windows couldn't open, then the option to start in safe mode. So I choose that and then the xp loading screen comes up but then goes to a blue screen that says UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME.

not good

I've googled the problem but all the fixes either you have to have the xp cd, or floppies to boot the comp. Well it's a laptop without a floppy drive and I don't have the xp cd so what are my options?

Jay_oasis
09-01-2007, 02:10 PM
if you have another pc then swap the drive into that and do a chkdsk /f ,that should sort it. I would then backup all the data, get a new drive and reinstall.

KingTomis
09-01-2007, 06:16 PM
I just ended up alt f11'd the SOB

works fine now