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by wakim

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Hello there. I have installed two OS in my computer, Pentium 3 1GHZ.393MB RAM, with the present original OS Windows 98SE.with 6 partition. I tried to install a 2nd. OS Windows XP Pro,, after the installation, I encounter the following problems. WhenI restart after the installation these message appears. Problem has been detected and Windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer. Follows by some help I followed the recommendation after reboot the same message appears again, I install again, after reboot a message say Unmountable boot volume, and the end message with the following code Technical information. 0x000000ED(0X82781030, 0XCC000185, 0X00000000, 0X00000000

After the restart from the normal starting there was three selection slots namely, (1). Windows XP, (2). Windows XP, (3) Windows 98. In the slot 1. XP could startup but at times the message mention appeared as mentioned. The Window 98 slot does not have any problem. The 2nd slot Windows XP will have the message unmountable boot volume. How do I delete the second slot entry, can you please let me know the procedure in installing a second operating system as setup in my computer.
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by sigmapi71

To remove the second slot in boot menu start WinXP, right click My Computer, select properties and tab advanced. Go to setting in startup section and click edit. You will see the boot.ini file. Make a backup of this file and delete the line that youwant disappeared (the second one in section [operating system]). Do not tamper this file!
Before installing WinXP check if you have some hardware compatibility problems.

by wakim

Answer 1 is ok.Answer 2 still having problem at time it is ok and at times blue screen.

by kwduke

The error you are receiveing,"unmountable Boot Volume" can be caused from various things

Usually it is from the file system being damaged...

To resolve this.. put your XP cd in the drive and reboot the machine from the cd rom... select the option that asks if you would like to repair a previous installation and use the Recovery Console...

You will then need to select which installation of XP to repair (1) (2) or you can do 1, when it finishes, go back and do the other

You will be put at a promt... from there type:
Chkdsk /r (and yes there is a space between the chkdsk and the /)

You should then be able to exit and reboot normally into the partition you just repaired... as mentioned you may need to do this for both XP installations

In order to delete the "second slot entry" you can either edit the boot.ini file ( not recommended) or erase that partition....

Again insert your XP cd... boot from CD rom.... this time you will be "creating a new partition" just as if you were reinstalling again... however.. when you get to the blue screnn that show all 3 installations.. you will want to select the one you want to delete,(2) and then choose the option to "delete partition".
then exit out..
You will have justdeleted that installation from your system... now you should jsut have 2 choices at boot up.. XP and 98

by wakim

Hello, thanks for your prompt reply. Unfortunately the thing did not work out the way it should be. After the process of running the Chkdsk /r is completed and restart the blue screen appears again, with the same pop up message. Please tell me what went wrong, is it I precede the wrong directions from the way you mentioned. I hope you can let me know the procedure in more layman term, in case I have entered wrongly the procedure, if not what else can be done.

Thanks.

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