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402104 2005-11-05 00:45:00 Dear friends, this has been asked before but the answers do not solve my problem. My brand new PB Tech computer has a 120 GB WDV UMDA-5 hard disk in it and I try to install Win XP. Halfway installation it restarts, and then blue screen with the famous Unmountable_boot_volume error. STOP:000000ED (0x83B40E30,0xC0000185,0x00000000,0x00000000)

I did everything Microsoft advises like rebooting, run chkdsk and use fixboot. but still nothing. since I can not imagine that it will be the 40 - 80 pin thing, I wonder what can I do now?? Chkdsk tells me it is all fine.

Thanks for help!

Jo
hotkiwi (6379)
402105 2005-11-05 01:00:00 If its brand new whats XP on?? On a CD? Or on a partition??

If its still under warranty, take it back.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
402106 2005-11-05 01:51:00 brand new PB Tech computer I can not imagine that it will be the 40 - 80 pin thing
Jo
Its not. Take it back.
pctek (84)
402107 2005-11-05 02:07:00 It comes with a virgin raw HDD, I install Win XP on it from a disk that I have from my old computer.
It stalls, phoned the guys, think it is not a software problem.
Will see.

cheers
hotkiwi (6379)
402108 2005-11-05 02:14:00 run a diagnostic on the harddrive......... drcspy (146)
402109 2005-11-05 02:18:00 Why bother? It's a brand new drive. Get a good brand new drive. ;)The only diagnostic I would run is on memory. Flakey memory seems to be the most common cause of odd error messages from OS installations, because that's about the toughest test of memory. Graham L (2)
402110 2005-11-05 03:36:00 but how run a diagnostic if there is no OS on the damned thing ? hotkiwi (6379)
402111 2005-11-05 03:50:00 use a boot cd..........goto www.seagate.com and look thru 'support' or 'download's for 'seatools'.......then run that the generic test thru boot cd/floppy.......you dont need an os to run diagnostic progs otherwise how would it be possible to diagnose probs on systems which dont have an os or have a malfunctioning los...... drcspy (146)
402112 2005-11-05 03:51:00 www.seagate.com drcspy (146)
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