Okay, we had a thunderstorm last night, and I told my brother to turn my computer off, instead of going to the start menu, he pressed and held the power button. Now whenever I turn it on, I get a blue screen telling me that I have an error with my Mountable_Boot_Volume. When I put in my Windows XP disk, it is telling me that I need a password to recover...does it matter that I am putting a Windows XP Pro disk and I have Windows XP Home? I cannot seem to find the OEM copy, but I'll try and find it. Is there anyway to bypass this password Deally? Or is the Hard Drive lost for good?
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Problem with Mountable_Boot_Volume...
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NKDietrich
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Wow, It's been a looong time since I've heard of a hard system shutdown being the cause of a boot failure.
Wish I could be of more help, I've never used Win XP Home, or dealt with an OEM machine that had it installed. So I haven't had the opportunity to try restoring Home from Pro.
You should be able to upgrade it to Pro using your Pro disc however, and keep everything intact.
But I'm guessing you have to be able to boot a Home machine to Windows before you can upgrade.
*shrug*
Alternative is pop in a second hard drive, install Windows on it, and copy important stuff over from the drive that wont boot. This is assuming, of course, that the Windows install is dead, and not the drive itself.
Wish I could be of more help, I've never used Win XP Home, or dealt with an OEM machine that had it installed. So I haven't had the opportunity to try restoring Home from Pro.
You should be able to upgrade it to Pro using your Pro disc however, and keep everything intact.
But I'm guessing you have to be able to boot a Home machine to Windows before you can upgrade.
*shrug*
Alternative is pop in a second hard drive, install Windows on it, and copy important stuff over from the drive that wont boot. This is assuming, of course, that the Windows install is dead, and not the drive itself.
Black Ghost
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Password dealy should be the Administrator account password... unless I'm mistaken about what you're doing there. And if you can get that to work... there should be some utilities to help fix your problem.... But I've never worked with an error like this before, so I might be full of shit.
