I have had Norton Ghost cause the 'Unmountable Boot Volume' error
before. FB mentioned uninstalling Norton just before this occurred. A
little to coincidental perhaps?
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On 2011-09-03 12:42 PM, Alan wrote:
> Unmountable boot volume is not a nice place to be FB. Nothing really works - Safe Mode, Last known
> configuration etc. It's a pain. Vincent already sent the standard Microsoft fix using the recovery
> console. Hopefully, that'll work if you have an original XP CD but you'll find a lot of people on
> the Internet searching for a good solution for this particular problem. It sounds like you're
> already resigned to a reinstall so you just have to recover your data from the hard drive.
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> The good news (to look on the bright side) is that there's a very good chance that there's probably
> nothing wrong with your data. Unless there's something wrong physically with the drive itself. But
> this is often purely a boot-related issue. Especially since you say this happened just after you
> uninstalled Norton. I assume you used the Norton removal tool to uninstall?
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> I'd recommend buying an IDE/SATA to USB 2.0 adapter for this job. They're pretty cheap. It looks
> like this:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002
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> Once you have that, you can take the hard drive out of your laptop (only a couple of screws on the
> bottom), remove the cradle/tray that hard drive sits in (another four screws), connect the hard
> drive to this adapter, plug the adapter into the USB of any other working computer and you'll see
> your own hard drive in Windows Explorer as you would a memory stick or external hard drive. Then
> just copy or transfer your personal files to the new computer or an external device.
>
> Alan
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joan Leach"<jleach728@sbcglobal.net>
> To:<simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 7:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Simply Computers] Re: Blue Screen !!
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>> Try to open drive on another system as an USB drive or by using a Linux Live CD like Puppy or Mint
>> or Ubuntu.
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>> Joan in Reno
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>> --- On Sat, 9/3/11, vincentwinterling<vwinterling@verizon.net> wrote:
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>> From: vincentwinterling<vwinterling@verizon.net>
>> Subject: [Simply Computers] Re: Blue Screen !!
>> To: simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
>> Date: Saturday, September 3, 2011, 4:25 AM
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>> You might be looking at failing hardware. If a reinstall doesn't fix your problem the next
>> step is looking at individual hardware components.>
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>> Using Windows Explorer, I would look in My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, etc. for your data
>> and if you locate anything that is what I would back up.>
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>> This is what Microsoft recommends for your error message:>
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>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302>
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>> and, here: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000630.htm>
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>> You might be looking at a failing hard drive.>
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>> --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "fggybttm"<fggybttm@...> wrote:
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>>> I get the message that the computer is shut down to keep from damage. It seems the issue is
>>> "unmountable_boot_volume" whatever that is. I've followed all the associated directions,
>>> attempts to restart using last known successful configurations, etc, etc, There have not been any
>>> new hardware or software additions.
>>> Last nite I'd uninstalled Norton and had done a defrag, and got the blue screen when reopening
>>> the computer.
>>> I'm resigned to a new reinstall, but am hoping I can save or transfer any data, photos, etc, if
>>> possible. Could there still be data on the hard-drive/wherever, that can be saved or transferred?
>>> Any words of advice or inquiry, encouraging or otherwise, would be welcome. Please advise.
>>> Have Dell Inspiron B130, and XP3, IE8
>>> FB
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