unmountable boot volume

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Power off
Desktop:...Open the case and reseat the hard drive IDE ribbon cable at both
ends.
Laptop/Portables:... simply remove and reinsert the hard drive.
If that fails:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315403

Otherwise go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and download
their hard drive diagnostics.

Do you have a hard drive overlay such as Max Blast?
Windows XP sometimes has issues with overlay software.
You may need to perform a Clean Installation without their overlay software
which is not needed anyway.

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"Princesseye" <Princesseye@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A7D389E6-6827-44C0-9B58-AB914FBF8538@microsoft.com...
> hello
>
> my husband's computer gives the unmountable boot volume when he now turns
> his pc on. We have tryed to chkdsk but we cannot get in that message
> appears
> as soon as the pc is turned on. we cannot boot from the windows cd either,
> so
> what is there left to do? Like i said we cannot even get into safe mode,
> or
> use the cd, or chhkdsk either. If you can help please let me know.
>
> Thanks alot