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Microsoft Windows: XP: Restart: Error: Blue screen: Stop 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME [Linux]
Mar 27th, 2005 08:06
Knud van Eeden,
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--- Knud van Eeden --- 17 September 2004 - 08:01 pm ------------------
Microsoft Windows: XP: Restart: Error: Blue screen: Stop 0x000000ED
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME [Linux]
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The quickest method:
Steps: Overview:
1. -Do a 'Repair' via the recovery console of the Microsoft Windows
2000 CD
1. Type the command
fixboot
2. -Restart your computer
3. -Let chkdsk run
4. -Restart your computer
5. -This takes altogether about 15 minutes for a 60 gigabyte harddisk
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Hereby a description of trying to solve this problem.
1. -After pressing the hardware on/off button (because Microsoft
Windows XP for some reason was not reacting, or reacting very
slow), and restarting it repeatedly showed (after the Microsoft
Windows start logo) the blue screen with the message
Stop 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
with first some characteristic ticking of the harddisk and the
computer stopped
2. -It was tried to first to startup and or to save at least some
files from that harddisk, by starting in safe mode (all options
were tried), but they all stopped at 'agp44.sys'.
3. -Then was tried to insert the Microsoft Windows XP CD, and run the
repair recovery console, but when a 'dir' at the 'C:\' command
prompt was done, it hanged and showed 'no reaction of the media'
2. -Because of no Internet access with that computer anymore, it was
decided to try to take the harddisk out of the laptop, and try it
in another laptop (as assumed was it was probably a hardware
problem with my harddisk)
The result was the same on the other computer.
After restarting you got the same steps and the same blue screen
with the 'UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME' message.
This made it more likely it was a software problem, and when you
again looked at the error message, it showed also that 'Windows'
had taken the action to shut down in order to avoid damage.
It was now also very probable that the file system was still
accessible, and only that Windows itself would not start.
3. -With the other laptop it was possible to contact the Internet, and
using http://www.google.com and searching for
'UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME' showed the link to Microsoft support
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185
4. -Decided was to follow this steps, so again to the Microsoft
Windows recovery console
1. Insert the Microsoft Windows XP CD
2. Make sure you boot from CD (possibly select the option for this
via your BIOS setup (by pressing the appropriate key (e.g. F2,
or F12) when starting up your computer, then selecting in the
setup screen that you start first from CD (and then from
harddisk or floppy)
3. You get then in the welcome screen
4. Press 'R' for repair
5. Supply your administrator password (possibly choose a blank
password, if you have not defined one).
6. You see then a screen
'Microsoft Windows XP (TM) Recovery console' 'The recovery
console provides system repair and recovery functionality'
'Type EXIT to quit the recovery console and restart the
computer'
1. If you now wait a while, you will see a command prompt'
C:\
2. First it was tried to type
chkdsk /r
3. This started checking the harddisk.
4. This showed
'CHKDSK is checking the volume...'
'CHKDSK is performing additional checking or recovery...'
'CHKDSK is performing additional checking or recovery...'
'CHKDSK is performing additional checking or recovery...'
50% completed...
1. The problem was that this took at least something like an
hour, after which it was still busy checking, after which
it was decided to restart the computer, and type the
command 'fixboot' instead, as this was supposed to go
much quicker (as it was a 'mount' problem, which points
to the 'boot' record which was damaged somehow, so
'fixboot' should be the more appropriate command).
4. -After restarting the PC, and booting from Microsoft Windows CD
again the recovery console option was chosen. But now there was a
complication. It asked you to log on to 'D:\WINDOWS', by choosing
'1'. (while the earlier windows version was installed on drive
c:), and it also asked for an administrator password. If you typed
the correct password, it was not recognized anymore, and after 3
attempts you had to restart your computer
5. -After that it was tried to reinstall Microsoft Windows XP, using
the Microsoft Windows XP CD.
1. If you tried this, it informed that no prior version of
Microsoft Windows was found (while there still was an old
version present)
2. then when you reached the decision on which partition to
reinstall Microsoft Windows, and selecting the correct existing
partition, it was not accepted (due to some CMOS errors on X86
computers, was the message). To continue installation, you
could only reformat your harddisk, which was not an interesting
option at all.
6. -After that it was decided to use Linux Knoppix v3.3 to try to see
if you could move some files from the harddisk to another harddisk
for backup purposes (in the worst case a new harddisk should have
been bought, a new Microsoft Windows XP installation should have
been done, and then this old harddisk should be used to have the
backups still on it).
1. Inserting the Linux Knoppix CD (you can download a free version
of this, if access to the Internet, otherwise it is in any case
nice to have such a CD for emergency purposes, it worked out).
The advantage of using Knoppix is that you can run it directly
from CD, and after that in memory.
So you do not have to install it on your harddisk.
2. Booting with your computer from CD ROM
3. This started the Linux Knoppix CD
4. It recognized all the drives (=the 60 gigabyte harddisk, and
another backup 60 gigabyte harddisk connected via the USB port
(in a special USB module case), and also 2 USB solid state
disks
1. But you could not write to the disks in Knoppix, so e.g. to
use it for file backup from the original harddisk to the
other harddisk was not possible in the first trials
2. But it showed that if you right clicked in Konqueror file
manager on the name of the file, you could choose to burn it
to CD.
1. Via drag and drop the most important files were dragged
to a burner program
1. By clicking the 'burn' icon in the menu, the burning
to a backup CD was successful.
7. -After that it was decided to try again to use the repair recovery
console, but now from Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional instead.
1. Insert the Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional CD
2. Make sure you boot from CD (possibly select the option for this
via your BIOS setup (by pressing the appropriate key (e.g. F2,
or F12) when starting up your computer, then selecting in the
setup screen that you start first from CD (and then from
harddisk or floppy)
3. You get then in the welcome screen
4. Press 'R' for repair
5. Supply your administrator password (possibly choose a blank
password, if you have not defined one).
6. You see then a screen
'Microsoft Windows 2000 (TM) Recovery console' 'The recovery
console provides system repair and recovery functionality'
'Type EXIT to quit the recovery console and restart the
computer'
1. If you now wait a while, you will see a command prompt'
C:\
2. Type the command:
fixboot
3. This showed:
'The target partition is C:' 'Are you sure you want to
write a new boot sector to the partition C:?'
answer y and then press ENTER
4. This showed:
'Fixboot is writing a new boot sector. The new boot sector
was successfully written'
5. Type EXIT to leave
6. Restart the computer
7. This will automatically ask you to run CHKDSK
'Check the file system on C:' 'The type of file system is
NTFS' 'One of your disks needs to be checked for
consistency' 'You may cancel the disk check, but is highly
recommended that you will continue'
1. 'Windows will now check the disk'
Some possible messages while checking:
'CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)'
'File record segment 277124 is unreadable'
'File record segment 277125 is unreadable'
'File record segment 277126 is unreadable'
'File record segment 277127 is unreadable'
'File verification completed' 'CHKDSK is verifying
indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
'17 percent completed ....'
'Index verification completed'
'CHKDSK is recovering lost files'
'CHKDSK is verifying security descriptions'
6. Restarting the computer
7. This took maybe 15 minutes, so fairly quick
7. -Finally access again to the old Microsoft Windows XP,
after restarting the computer
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Total time used: 7 hours
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Internet: see also:
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[Internet: see also: http://www.google.com search
for 'unmountable_boot_volume': http://www.google.com/search?
hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=unmountable_boot_volume]
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"STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" Error Message When You
Restart Your Computer or Upgrade to Windows XP
[Internet: source: http://www.google.com search
for 'unmountable_boot_volume': http://support.microsoft.com/?
kbid=297185]
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Operating system: Microsoft: Windows: XP: Repair: Link: Overview: Can
you give an overview of links?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/33813/fid/868
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Operating system: Microsoft: Windows: XP: Link: Overview: Can you give
an overview of links?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/34878/fid/868
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