unmountable boot volume xp recovery console commands

Unmountable boot volume xp recovery console commands install#

I find Spinrite a very good app, as you say it's a bit expensive, and there are other solutions to recover data from supposedly bad sectors/clusters.and to re-format properly. Of course, you should have a backup of the data.

Unmountable boot volume xp recovery console commands install#

Of course you need to run it from a PE of some kind or from Recovery Console booted from external media, CD-ROM or USB stick/hd, even the XP install CD-ROM allows to boot to Recovery Console. Well, usually running a CHKDSK /R solves this kind of problems for free. Spinrite is far better than using CHKDSK or SCANDISK and not only detects bad clusters better than CHKDSK/SCANDISK but also can recover data from those flawed sectors. Use it on a different machine with a working HD to create a Spinrite boot floppy disk or Spinrite boot CD and load either one into your computer with the faulty hard drive. I suggest buying a copy though it might be a little expensive. In short, Spinrite saved our butts this time. The 'unmountable boot volume' message never appeared again after the XP OS was reloaded. I couldn't reach the XP Recovery Console, even if I booted from either the XP Setup Boot Floppies or the XP CD as I would get a different blue screen error message telling me to run CHKDSK /F or CHKDSK /R to fix the problems, but I couldn't access CHKDSK because the blue screen message appears before I get the chance.īut now I got it resolved by loading the Spinrite 6.0 boot disk on the laptop with the faulty hard drive and Spinrite found a bunch of bad clusters and recovered crucial data, even though it took many hours to fix. Notice the second 'parameter' of the stop error is '0xC000009C' which seem to indicate a 'bad block' or bad cluster/bad sector Here's the specific 'unmountable boot volume message' I got on my brother's XP laptop: It definitely is an intermittent problem with the hard drive, jaclaz. P.S.: You should also check your keyboard, your '!' and '?' keys appear to get stuck. You will need anyway to check the hard disk.