BSOD: Unmountable_Boot_Volume... yikes!

I am having some major trouble with my laptop and would be very
appreciative of an help that anyone could provide!

Short Version:
Randomly the other day on booting, my laptop blue-screened with the
following error: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

I'm running Vista (32) and most of what I've read has not been able to
work. I can't boot into Safe Mode (same blue screen), so doing anything
that requires that doesn't work.

Unfortunately, when I boot off the Vista DVD, it doesn't seem to see
the drive at all, as far as I can tell? When I first run System
Recovery, a "System Recovery Options" dialog pops up asking me to select
an OS to repair. Nothing is listed there, but it gives me an option to
"Load Drivers" for my HD, unfortunately, doing so doesn't seem to
actually give me any driver options.

Most of the solutions I've seen on the web say to do Startup Repair or
go to a boot prompt and do chkdsk, but when I try to do startup repair,
it tells me it can't do it (NoHardDrive?) and when I go a boot prompt,
it won't see my C: drive.

Now, oddly enough, when this first happened, I tried all these things,
and on one random reboot, it seemed to work just fine out of the blue!
I used it fine for about 12hrs. until all of the sudden it wouldn't
boot. This time it gave me a blue screen error on disk.sys /
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA a couple times upon trying to reboot once or
twice, before now just reverting back to the problem I had before:
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME.

So I'm stuck: can't boot to the drive (BSOD, even in Safe Mode), but
Windows Repair doesn't seem to see the drive. Any help would be MOST
appreciated!

Thanks!


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Re: Unmountable_Boot_Volume... yikes!

Hi,

Sounds like the hard drive has failed and more than likely it will need to
be replaced.

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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"XyloCB" <XyloCB.3zamzb@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> I am having some major trouble with my laptop and would be very
> appreciative of an help that anyone could provide!
>
> Short Version:
> Randomly the other day on booting, my laptop blue-screened with the
> following error: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
>
> I'm running Vista (32) and most of what I've read has not been able to
> work. I can't boot into Safe Mode (same blue screen), so doing anything
> that requires that doesn't work.
>
> Unfortunately, when I boot off the Vista DVD, it doesn't seem to see
> the drive at all, as far as I can tell? When I first run System
> Recovery, a "System Recovery Options" dialog pops up asking me to select
> an OS to repair. Nothing is listed there, but it gives me an option to
> "Load Drivers" for my HD, unfortunately, doing so doesn't seem to
> actually give me any driver options.
>
> Most of the solutions I've seen on the web say to do Startup Repair or
> go to a boot prompt and do chkdsk, but when I try to do startup repair,
> it tells me it can't do it (NoHardDrive?) and when I go a boot prompt,
> it won't see my C: drive.
>
> Now, oddly enough, when this first happened, I tried all these things,
> and on one random reboot, it seemed to work just fine out of the blue!
> I used it fine for about 12hrs. until all of the sudden it wouldn't
> boot. This time it gave me a blue screen error on disk.sys /
> PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA a couple times upon trying to reboot once or
> twice, before now just reverting back to the problem I had before:
> UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME.
>
> So I'm stuck: can't boot to the drive (BSOD, even in Safe Mode), but
> Windows Repair doesn't seem to see the drive. Any help would be MOST
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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