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I can no longer boot from my HP Pavilion xf145. I get a blue screen
telling me "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME". I attempted to boot from the
recovery disks, and it tells me "Wrong Model Notebook".
Discussions with HP tell me that possibly:
Hard drive is bad
"tattoo" can't be read
Wrong recovery CDs.
HP wants $120 ($100 + 19.95 shipping) Cdn for recovery CDs, a little
much for something that I should have received in the first place.
Anyone got some I can get a copy of? I wouldn't mind too much paying
the $100, but I have no guarantee it'll be the answer, and returning
them, should they turn out to be the same as the ones I have, would
cost me a 15% restocking fee plus shipping both ways.
Can anyone tell me the number on your recovery disks? Mine say "hp
notebook pc F3378-12004B".
If it turns out to be the "tattoo" (notebook ID number stored
internally), I will have to have it re-tattooed, and I shudder to
think about the cost of that.
If I need a new hard drive, HP wants $370 Cdn exchange ($727 Cdn
without the exchange), for a 20 GB! They will be a long time awaiting
my purchase of a new HD, methinks.
If I can't fix it easily and reasonably, I'll be testing it to see if
it floats in my dugout, and I don't think I'll ever buy anything made
by HP again.
Thanks,
Lego
I can no longer boot from my HP Pavilion xf145. I get a blue screen
telling me "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME". I attempted to boot from the
recovery disks, and it tells me "Wrong Model Notebook".
Discussions with HP tell me that possibly:
Hard drive is bad
"tattoo" can't be read
Wrong recovery CDs.
HP wants $120 ($100 + 19.95 shipping) Cdn for recovery CDs, a little
much for something that I should have received in the first place.
Anyone got some I can get a copy of? I wouldn't mind too much paying
the $100, but I have no guarantee it'll be the answer, and returning
them, should they turn out to be the same as the ones I have, would
cost me a 15% restocking fee plus shipping both ways.
Can anyone tell me the number on your recovery disks? Mine say "hp
notebook pc F3378-12004B".
If it turns out to be the "tattoo" (notebook ID number stored
internally), I will have to have it re-tattooed, and I shudder to
think about the cost of that.
If I need a new hard drive, HP wants $370 Cdn exchange ($727 Cdn
without the exchange), for a 20 GB! They will be a long time awaiting
my purchase of a new HD, methinks.
If I can't fix it easily and reasonably, I'll be testing it to see if
it floats in my dugout, and I don't think I'll ever buy anything made
by HP again.
Thanks,
Lego