Good evening all,

My desk top is one that I built a few years back with swmbo's father, well mainly he built and I watched!! About 2 months ago I got an error message on the dreaded blue screen and have not been able to get the thing running again since, have any of you come across this error message( UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME ) before or have any clues as to why it would be? I'm not really bothered about the pc as we now have this lap top, it's just the 1000's of music tracks and 1000's of photo's which are on there that I would like to retrieve as I foolishly have not got them all backed up in a hard format.


I asked Swmbo's father about it as soon as it happened and his thoughts were to re-install windows but I know very little about these things and wouldn't know where to begin

any advice is greatfully recieved.
thanks.
john.

I know nothing about computers, but I just copied/pasted your error into google and the top answer was a microsoft help page.

here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297185

don't know if it's what you need, but like I say, I know nothing!
cheers,
Steve

[Edited on 2/9/07 by worX]

It's an error you often see when a HDD is starting to fail. Your best bet to get files off it is to put it into/onto another PC.

Just because your PC won't boot from it doesn't automatically mean it can't be read as a secondary drive.

Easiest way to use it on another PC is to mount it into an external HDD caddy. Cheap as chips (Ebay, EBuyer etc..) and connect it up to another (your laptop?) PC.

Cheers guys, the microsoft support page says that I need a boot disc or the windows disc if my machine will boot from cd, I am assuming that swmbo's old fella has still got these and so will give him a ring in a while. as for the hdd caddy, is it somthing like THIS that I should be looking for?

thanks again.
john.

If you bring your box, keyboard & mouse round, I can see what I can pull of the HDD for you.

I only live in Dewsbury.

Pat...

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Originally posted by Marlon
Cheers guys, the microsoft support page says that I need a boot disc or the windows disc if my machine will boot from cd, I am assuming that swmbo's old fella has still got these and so will give him a ring in a while. as for the hdd caddy, is it somthing like THIS that I should be looking for?

thanks again.
john.

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I'd buy a new HDD (you're going to need to anyway), install a fresh windows on that, attach the old HDD as a slave drive and copy the files across to the new HD. You can keep the dying HDD if you want but I'd get rid of it!!!

My laptop has just done the same thing. Hard drives are cheap as chips from ebuyer.

Cheers for the help guys it is very much appreciated.
john.

pat u2u on its way.