Computer reboot problem

[hemi68charger]

Hey gang..
Having problems with my home computer.. Accidently, the power to the machine was turned off while on... When I went to reboot, it failed.. The warning window comes up stating that Windows XP OS did not launch... I have an indication of the following error message:

Unmountable_Boot_Volume


I was able to run the system test on it and it came up with the following failures..

SATA Disk S/N 5MR1ENVB - READ TEST
Error Code: 0F00:0244
SATA Disk S/N 5MR1ENVB - VERIFY TEST
Error Code: 0F00:1A44

I can't for the life of me find my system CD that came with the computer since we recently moved. Figures............

Thanks in advance...
Troy

[Troy]

Looks like a corrupted hard drive. Sometimes you can fix it with the Windows recovery CD and sometimes the hard drive manufacturer has a diagnostic tool that can repair it. Who is the manufacturer of the computer?

Troy

[FLG]

How old is the computer and what kind? If its not to old, alot of manufacturers have built in recovery partitions and the CD is not required. Also what is the STOP error?

If the second parameter is 0xC0000032, then its the file system.

See if you can get a windows CD (any XP cd will do) and follow these steps

1.   Start your computer by using the Windows startup disks, or with the Windows installation disk if your computer can start from the CD drive.
2.   When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press R to select the repair option.
3.   If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the Windows installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console.
4.   Type the administrator password when you are prompted to do this.

Note If no administrator password exists, press ENTER.
5.   At the command prompt, on the drive where Windows is installed, type chkdsk /r, and then press ENTER.
6.   At the command prompt, type exit, and then press ENTER to restart your computer.

[hemi68charger]

I can't find my dang Windows recovery CD that came with the machine.. It's a DELL Pavillion and it's about 2 years old.. I know it's a dump question, but I may have my old Windows 98 installation CD.. Will that work or does it need to be a Windows XP CD?  I can get the machine to interact, believe it or not, with my Windows 95 floppy... I get to the A: drive..............  If I could get to the C: drive, maybe a chkdsk /r command could be used?
The DOS command for changing directories is /: cd C:

Thanks...............

[FLG]

Going to have to find a win XP CD. Any CD will do, even if its not the copy that came with the PC. What model Pavillion?

[hemi68charger]

Looks like a corrupted hard drive. Sometimes you can fix it with the Windows recovery CD and sometimes the hard drive manufacturer has a diagnostic tool that can repair it. Who is the manufacturer of the computer?

Troy

Hey there Troy.
It's a Dell Pavillion........

[dodgecharger-fan]

If worse comes to worse, you can restore it to "out-of-the-box" status with Dell's recovery program.

This will wipe everything out of your computer and set the OS and programs back to new - like the day you turned it on for the first time.
So, unless you have a backup of all the stuff you've added over the time you've had the computer, this is an absolute last resort.

You can access it by hitting CTRL-F12 when you see the blue box on the screen during boot up.


I recently did this for a family member that was passing the system along to someone else and wanted it clean. Took me less than 20 minutes and only about 3 minutes of my attention.