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baggygreen · 07-08-09, 07:02 AM

Ive got myself an "Unmountable Boot Volume" error.

should be easy enough to fix.

However, after inserting the boot CD and hitting "R" to repair, the bloody thing hangs. Repeatedly.

Any ideas, short of pouring kero over the HDD?

AVGWarhawk · 07-08-09, 07:39 AM

My guess is your hard drive is broken. I had the same. Then it did start the CD to repair. When that started it said, "No hard drive detected"

The drive completely fried.

Fincuan · 07-08-09, 07:53 AM

You didn't say anything about your hardware config and OS, but here goes:

You could try another OS from a live-cd, like Ubuntu, and see if it can detect and use the drive. If it can then it's obviously not a hardware fault but something else, like a corrupted boot.ini, which in it's turn can be repaired via the live-cd.

07-08-09, 07:02 AM	#1
baggygreen Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canberra, ACT, Down Under (really On Top) Posts: 1,880 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Eep! Ive got myself an "Unmountable Boot Volume" error. should be easy enough to fix. However, after inserting the boot CD and hitting "R" to repair, the bloody thing hangs. Repeatedly. Any ideas, short of pouring kero over the HDD?

07-08-09, 07:39 AM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	My guess is your hard drive is broken. I had the same. Then it did start the CD to repair. When that started it said, "No hard drive detected" The drive completely fried. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

07-08-09, 07:53 AM	#3
Fincuan Admiral Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Suomi, sauna, puukko, perkele Posts: 2,346 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	You didn't say anything about your hardware config and OS, but here goes: You could try another OS from a live-cd, like Ubuntu, and see if it can detect and use the drive. If it can then it's obviously not a hardware fault but something else, like a corrupted boot.ini, which in it's turn can be repaired via the live-cd.