rshadarack Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 So I place my laptop in my car, everything seems to be working fine. A few hours after driving, I boot it up and it starts loading windows (windows icon with that scrolling thing at the bottom). Suddenly, all I see is a blue screen with text on it that says:UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUMEAlso, there is:****STOP: 0x000000ED (0x8733B900, 0xC00000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)The rest of the screen just says to try to reboot or change BIOS options.Does anyone know what is wrong and what I should do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rshadarack Posted March 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Oh, I forgot:Windows XP Professional, SP21.6GHZ Pentium-M1024MB DDR-SD RAM64mb Radeon video card Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 The error is indicative of a hard drive failure. One quick test I often try is booting to a Windows 98 SE OEM Boot Disk and boot to it. Run a program called fdisk at the command prompt and see whether fdisk recognizes your hard drive. If not, check in BIOS to see if BIOS recognizes your hard drive. If not, I would strongly suspect a bad hard drive, although it could be the controller (mother board), cable, or drive. I've used a program called SpinRite to recover hard drives, but I don't know how it will work if you can't even see the drive. Depending on the data you might lose, it could be worth a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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