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More info?)
I know this sounds like Bart Simpson offering PC advice, but have
you turned the PC off ?, allowed it to sit momentarily and then tried
to boot it again. I've seen some similar types of issues and by doing
a power off - the disk drive heads will park themselves. (Reset)
If you have a full fledged XP CD (not Restore/Recovery type) you
can boot to the Recovery Console and do a Chkdsk. It will inform
you of any errors present. As long as you have your critical data
backed up, you can proceed to do another Chkdsk with the repair
qualifiers /p /r.
"Ray" <Ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7A15437E-B1AB-4176-9217-F60ED8481F99@microsoft.com...
>I am 90% sure but I will recheck. Thanks. Like you I found very little
> information on this and don't even know where to begin??
>
> Thanks
>
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>
> --
> Ray
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> "Malke" wrote:
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>> Ray wrote:
>>
>> > Has anyone encountered the above error message? I am running XP home
>> > edition and at startup I receive the blue screen with
>> > unmovable_boot_volume message. I can not boot in safe mode etc. Any
>> > ideas as to what to look for to correct this? Is it a registry
>> > problem, memory etc?? Any help would be appreciated.
>> >
>> Not many people have this problem. I've only seen a few references to it
>> by Googling, with no clear answers. Are you absolutely sure that is the
>> exact error message? It is more common to get an "unmountable boot
>> volume" error. You're quite sure you're not getting that?
>>
>> Malke
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>>
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