Unmountable_boot_volume

Hello all,

OK. I have an old Gateway 450 laptop running XP SP 3 512 RAM 30G HD.

All was well. I installed netbeans 6.1. Fine. All still well. I tried to do an online update of the installed components and in the middle of the update I got the dreaded BSOD (don't have the stop msg.).

After rebooting, XP attempts to boot goes through to the Windows screen with the scrolling progress bar, then stops with the unmountable_boot_volume error (stop 0xED).

This happens with last known working option and safe mode.

I tried using the XP CD to try chkdsk /r, but it can't find the drive.

Since it appears to be attempting to boot XP, it has to see the drive, right? I'm hoping that it's a boot sector problem.

Should I try fixboot or fixmbr, or is there something else that I should try?

Thanks

 

It seems that the drive was failing. This was the original drive. I tried to clone the HD using clonezilla and the clone failed because of bad sectors.

I replaced the drive with a new one, installed the OS, and restored my files from a previous back up.

Thanks.

 

One more point that's noteworthy. I did remove the drive and put the same drive back in and windows did boot normally. But the sectors were still bad. Rather than continue with the drive, I replaced it to avoid what would probably be an inevitable crash.

Maybe this may help someone.

 

Your posts might well be useful to someone. Thanks for keeping us posted.

 

This might be of help to you:

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/146437875/3OUPiGbi.rar

This is the recovery console on cd, not an O/S just the recovery console.
It is extemely hard to come by, I got it from a chap that works in Siemens, M/S gives it out to those types of firms.
Small download Size: 4432 KB It is an ISO file. So just burn it as an ISO and you will have a bootable CD. Yours is exactly one of purposes of this drive, to remount a drive that has become unmounted.:wave

BTW, Forgot to mention, the password for the file is........irishbear
This is perfectly legit as it is only a tool not an O/S

 

OEM Workaround for Stop 0x000000ED -
Unmountable_Boot_Volume Kernel Mode Trap

© 2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Microsoft products are licensed to OEMs by Microsoft
Licensing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft
Corporation.


Stop 0x000000ED Kernel Mode Trap and IDE Hard Disks
Microsoft has been reviewing cases related to OEM
and Retail customers running the Microsoft® Windows®
XP operating system who have received
"Stop 0x000000ED - Unmountable_Boot_Volume" kernel mode
trap messages. This issue occurs on multiple types of
hardware platforms, but it appears that in many cases
the issue is on IDE drives with NTFS partition. In the
short term we have created this CD for use as a workaround
for this problem.

Current Resolution
For current OEM customers: If the Q308402 update for
the Recovery Console has been applied, the workaround for
this issue is to boot into Recovery Console and run
chkdsk /f or chkdsk /r, either of which returns the hard
drive to a bootable, working state.

For systems that have not applied the Q308402 Recovery
Console update, you will need to use this supplemental
CD with the Recovery Console functionality:
1. Boot the system using this Recovery Console CD.
2. Choose Option "R" on the Windows XP Setup Screen
3. Log in to the appropriate system partition as an
Administrator
4. In the command prompt run the following command:
chkdsk /r or chkdsk /f
5. Reboot the system, by typing exit.
Your system should boot normally.
=====================================
Using this Command: x:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons
You can put the recovery console on your own system, where x is your CD drive. but you will need a CD to do it with, and it must match the SP that is on the disk. IF you are going to do it the best time is imidiatly after afress install. For anyone that has a Sp2 CD and have upgraded to SP3 you can download SP3 and ectract it to a folder and replace the X to where the folder is. E.G C:\SP3\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons and this will give you the recovery console as an alternative to boot to on startup