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by fudge_rocks

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i'm having trouble formatting my other pc. it won't boot to windows and it gives me that blue screen of error, which says "unmountable boot volume". i would like to know what this means.
when i format it says the c: drive is ram drive and that there is no hard drive to format.

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by fred07

If your standard OS boot disk is not doing it then use WD's or Maxtors boot disk. Both obtainable from their web sites. Also bootdisk.com
has all OS boot disk's available.
It sounds like you have an ez-bios on your hard drive and a full format is the only way to wipe it and it takes the Western Digital or Maxtors boot disks to erase it. I have had great results from either of them.

by fred07

You did not mention the age of other pc. If older it required ez-bios to handle the larger than pc bios Hard Drive.

by pctech26

Sounds like a boot record that may not have been successfully created which is used to boot to your operating system.

If you are trying to reformat you hard drive, insert your boot disk to get to the A:/ prompt. Type fdisk, and delete all partitions, and then create a partition. Then you can install your operating system. If you need more information on how to do this, let me know.

If you are not trying to reformat your hard driver, then I suggest trying to repair your boot record. You need a utility software to do such a thing.

by dnc

If this is an HP computer that had XP on it, you have been hit with an HP glitch. You will have to fdisk then re-format. This glitch is addressed at the HP site, and describes what must be done. It causes a partition change that must be corrected. DNC

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