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ChiroGeek
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Hi all,
I've got my brother-in-law computer on my workbench and Its failing to load window XP Pro - NTFS partitioned. It trys but hangs on the very first windows screen. Eventually I get the evil blue screen of death saying "unmountable_Boot_Volume". I'm figureing a dead hard drive.
Of course they have failed to back it up and am begging that I try and save some of the files on the computer - especially the My Documents folder.
I've tried booting in with all the safe-mode options for it never makes it to a windows screen - just the above Blue Screen.
I've tried booting up to win 98 boot disc but it would see the C:\ drive. I wanted to try and redo the boot sector.
I then thought maybe I could try a new window install in a differently named install folder (this usually has worked in the past) but windows said the partition was damaged and I need to reformat - which of course will kill all their old files.
Does anyone have any other tricks I can try????
Thanks in advance
Doug G.
I've got my brother-in-law computer on my workbench and Its failing to load window XP Pro - NTFS partitioned. It trys but hangs on the very first windows screen. Eventually I get the evil blue screen of death saying "unmountable_Boot_Volume". I'm figureing a dead hard drive.
Of course they have failed to back it up and am begging that I try and save some of the files on the computer - especially the My Documents folder.
I've tried booting in with all the safe-mode options for it never makes it to a windows screen - just the above Blue Screen.
I've tried booting up to win 98 boot disc but it would see the C:\ drive. I wanted to try and redo the boot sector.
I then thought maybe I could try a new window install in a differently named install folder (this usually has worked in the past) but windows said the partition was damaged and I need to reformat - which of course will kill all their old files.
Does anyone have any other tricks I can try????
Thanks in advance
Doug G.