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| 339429 | 2005-03-29 08:27:00 | ive recently been having blue screen errors coming up when trying to boot. Im running xp and this (unmountable boot volume)ive searched both the net and the MS sire but still no luck. My pc will not boot past this point. I also tried booting from the xp cd but it keeps telling me that it cannot find any installed hdd's. im losing it please help. | panamation (6679) | ||
| 339430 | 2005-03-29 08:44:00 | Have you made any hardware changes or worked in the case lately? Check the cables are firmly seated at both ends. Get a drive diagnostic utility from the drive manufacturers website and load it on a floppy or bootable CD if that option is avialable. Test the drive, it could be dying or dead. If you have important files on there, get your hands on a live Linux CD, boot it up and browse the drive if it's able to be mounted that way. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 339431 | 2005-03-29 09:09:00 | all the cables seem to be in order, im just about to hop on the manufacturers site. just a quick thing what do you mean by a linux cd? | panamation (6679) | ||
| 339432 | 2005-03-29 09:32:00 | A live Linux CD is a bootable CD with a complete OS on it which does not use or touch a ahrd drive, it makes a RAM disc and runs off that . Knoppix ( . com/dwres . php?resource=review-knoppix" target="_blank">distrowatch . com) is a well known one that people use as a rescue/repair disc . There are lots of smaller specialty Linux distro's used for OS repair, recovery or data retrieval . EBCD ( . pcministry . com/) and Fork (http://distrowatch . com/table . php?distribution=fork" target="_blank">ebcd . pcministry . com/) and Fork (http:) areothers, and, I've used Mepis ( . mepis . org/) to save files from a troubled Windows . Although the rescue discs are made specifically for the task, if you not used to Linux/Unix" target="_blank">www . mepis . org/) to save files from a troubled Windows . Although the rescue discs are made specifically for the task, if you not used to Linux it may be best to try something like Knoppix or Mepis which have more user friendly desktop type GUI tools . A whole bunch of Live CD's ( . com/dwres . php?resource=cd" target="_blank">distrowatch . com) at Distro watch . |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 339433 | 2005-03-29 09:36:00 | Does the BIOS show that the HDD is present? | johnd (85) | ||
| 339434 | 2005-03-29 09:50:00 | thanks ive just loaded linux........see what happens.....and yes the bios does show thwe hdd's. what now | panamation (6679) | ||
| 339435 | 2005-03-29 09:54:00 | Can Linux see the c:\> drive? It will be called hda1. | johnd (85) | ||
| 339436 | 2005-03-29 10:40:00 | yes, but will installing linux erase all previous issues? | panamation (6679) | ||
| 339437 | 2005-03-29 10:51:00 | yes, but will installing linux erase all previous issues? if you have booted from a live CD version of Linux (see Murray P's post above) then it will not touch the contents of the hard disk - you are not "installing" Linux - just running it from a CD. If you can see the c: drive with Linux, then there is most likely no hardware issues - something has gone wrong with XP. You can also recover your data at this stage if you need to. |
johnd (85) | ||
| 339438 | 2005-03-29 11:11:00 | Can't emphasise enough what John has just said, you should not install Linux, your using a bootable Live CD aren't you, good :thumbs: BTW what version of Linux are you using . Re installing, most distro's won't toast your Windows partition if you don't want them to, but it's not always obvious when your asked to create Linux partitions, what the options are |
Murray P (44) | ||
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