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| 198688 | 2003-12-09 06:13:00 | Hi all, My friends computer has trouble booting up. An error message pops up (blue screen) with the major prob being UNKNOWN_BOOT_VOLUME It is a 40Gig HD (Seagate) with 4 partitions. When I take the HD out and plug it into another comp (as slave), when the computer boots up the root dir of the Seagate HD is missing (the other 3 partitions are fine). When I boot up the HD (as Master) using a floppy, and then run fdisk, the root drive is visible (as Primary NTFS Active) I am thinking that the boot sector is damaged?? Any help would be appreciated... |
sandman (4974) | ||
| 198689 | 2003-12-09 06:47:00 | get hold of a small HDD 20 gig and use that as the boot one using the damaged one as storage | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 198690 | 2003-12-09 06:59:00 | Try running repair on the OS by booting from the OS Installation CD and see if that helps. I'd clear the MBR first.... |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 198691 | 2003-12-09 07:05:00 | Sandman, Are you sure it's not saying "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME"? if so then look at this article Stop 0x000000ED or UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME (www.microsoft.com) and also this article UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME (support.microsoft.com) and also this article Stop 0x000000ED Error Message (support.microsoft.com) for a solution. Cheers, Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 198692 | 2003-12-09 22:41:00 | Thats was probably it. I will check out those articles. Thanks alot! =) |
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