Marlon
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| posted on 2/9/07 at 05:01 PM |
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Desk top troubles
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.
Band Anyone?
Linky to SWMBO 's band
Linky to Brother in laws band
MKoc 1081
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worX
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| posted on 2/9/07 at 05:05 PM |
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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]
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McLannahan
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| posted on 2/9/07 at 05:23 PM |
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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.
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Marlon
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| posted on 2/9/07 at 05:53 PM |
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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.
Band Anyone?
Linky to SWMBO 's band
Linky to Brother in laws band
MKoc 1081
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Avoneer
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| posted on 2/9/07 at 06:30 PM |
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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...
No trees were killed in the sending of this message.
However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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McLannahan
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| posted on 2/9/07 at 06:33 PM |
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quote:
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.
That's the fella!
I'd not try to rebuild the system yet though, try to read the drive from another system first.
The drive is fragile - especially now the file system is damaged.
If Pat could help you that might be the quickest and easiest option!
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BenB
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| posted on 2/9/07 at 09:49 PM |
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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!!!
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Danozeman
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| posted on 3/9/07 at 06:30 AM |
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My laptop has just done the same thing. Hard drives are cheap as chips from ebuyer.
Dan
Built the purple peril!! Let the modifications begin!!
http://www.eastangliankitcars.co.uk
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Marlon
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| posted on 3/9/07 at 07:22 PM |
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Cheers for the help guys it is very much appreciated.
john.
pat u2u on its way.
Band Anyone?
Linky to SWMBO 's band
Linky to Brother in laws band
MKoc 1081
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