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Sony Vaio Laptop Unmountable_Boot_Volume

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by leah

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I have been reading all the blogs for 2 days and nothing I have read has helped me. I am so upset - I have not done a backup on my system, although I do have a "system restore'point of aobut 3 weeks ago.

Tuesday am, my computer was fine. I shut it off and left home. Tuesday night, I get BSOD, error message " oxcoooooo6", I cannot do anything. It keeps looping and looping to reboot, I cannot start it in any mode. I cannot get the Install CD to work, and although I can get to the BIOS utility screen, I do not know how that would help me.

When I get to the SONY Recovery module, it only wants to let me totally wipe the ahrd drive - no in between measures.

Please help.
Thankyou

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by older mycroft

Option 1: Use CHKDSK from the Recovery Console

1.Start the computer with the Operating System disc in the CD or DVD drive.
2.Press any key when prompted to boot from the CD or DVD.
3.A blue screen will appear and several files will load. This process takes about 30 seconds to complete. You should not have to select anything from the keyboard.
4.At the blue setup menu, press R to Repair a Windows XP installation.
5.At the C: prompt, type chkdsk /r . This repair process may take 30 - 60 minutes depending on the size of the hard drive and repairs needed.
6.After the chkdsk completes, type Exit at the C: prompt.
7.Windows will restart. Eject the CD or DVD and it should continue normally.

by oh smeg

You will need to go into BIOS and change the Boot Order to Optical Drive then the HDD. Remember to save your changes when you exit and you should then be able to Boot off the Sony Supplied Install Media.

As Sony provide a Slipstreamed Install Disc I'm not sure if it has the Repair Console Option but try that first.

If you have no joy there get a copy of the Emergency Boot CD

http://tinyurl.com/2q6n95

Burn a copy and with the unit set the same way boot off the Emergency Boot CD and see if you can repair the Windows Install from there.

If that fails you need to remove the HDD and fit it to a USB Caddy and connect to another computer and copy all your Data off the drive before wiping it and reinstalling the OS and Sony supplied software.

Now put in place a Backup Procedure so this doesn't happen again. As it will and you may not be so lucky next time as a HDD could die and you would loose everything. There are two types of Computer Users those who have lost their Data and those who are going to loose their Data. It's not a likely hood but a certainty. So the more that you do to prevent this the better you are off.

Not sure what OS is involved here but if you where using File Encryption you'll need to take the HDD to a Data Recovery House to Recover your Data before doing anything as you run the risk of loosing it all the more that changes are made.

Col

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