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Title: Anyone have experience with a "unmountable boot volume" error?
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 06, 2009, 01:27:32 PM

So, I have a crappy Gateway (which doesn't have a true XP disk) and my boot.ini file has become corrupt. Gateway's solution is just to do a hard drive wipe and start over. Well, that's bullshit since I will lose a lot of data and a chkdsk /r or /p will work if I can get access to that hard drive.

Should I just connect the defunct drive to another computer (as a slave), transfer the data, then do a fresh install? Or is there something easier I am missing that will help me fix the problem?

Title: Re: Anyone have experience with a "unmountable boot volume" error?
Post by: siamesedreamer on April 06, 2009, 01:55:02 PM

Yep. Had one about this time last year. According to Dell, your hdd is fubared. They had to replace mine.

Title: Re: Anyone have experience with a "unmountable boot volume" error?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 07, 2009, 01:37:59 AM

I'm having a similar problem right now  :'(

Title: Re: Anyone have experience with a "unmountable boot volume" error?
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 07, 2009, 01:39:57 AM

I had to format the drive. That's what Gateway techs and 2 local tech guys recommended. Even a data recovery specialist couldn't guarantee that I could recover all my files.

I lost about 7 months of childrens pictures/videos.  :'(