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From: David Farber on 27 Jan 2010 14:25 Meat Plow wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:39:27 -0800, "David Farber" > <farberbear.unspam(a)aol.com>wrote: > >> I am servicing an HP dv2125nr notebook computer. The problem was >> that it came up with a blue screen while booting and said, >> "unmountable_boot_volume." > > Insert bootable Windows CD enter recovery console and type chkdsk /r > > Don't know what your operating system is but the above is for XP. > Vista and 7 may have the same feature but I have not needed to recover > an unmountable boot volume in either. However I just did a Compaq > laptop and successfully recover the operating system. Chkdsk /r can > take a couple hours since it does an exhaustive search for and > recovers data from bad sectors using NTFS's journal. And it does it > while there is no disk acceleration drivers loaded. The original drive is working ok now. I'm using XP. But it's over five years old and I'd rather replace it now before it crashes for good. Thanks for your reply. -- David Farber David Farber's Service Center L.A., CA
From: David Farber on 2 Feb 2010 16:33
PeterD wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:39:27 -0800, "David Farber" > <farberbear.unspam(a)aol.com> wrote: > > >> I bought a new Fujitsu hard drive off of ebay, ... > > I think I see the problem! <g> The seller agreed to exchange the Fujitsu with a Samsung drive. The Samsung drive worked without a hitch. Problem solved. Thanks for your reply. -- David Farber David Farber's Service Center L.A., CA |