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by jiggy

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My windows XP boots but goes to a blue screen which says "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME".
What can I do to solve this problem without reinstalling. I already tried "Last known Good Configuration".

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by hereinoz

I have had this problem installing motherboard drivers that were not compatible with XP. The system worked OK until I did a defrag, then the walls fell in.

If this is the case, and you can't uninstall the Motherboard drivers, you may be stuck with a re-install. Try putting in the WinXP Cd and going to the recovery console and running chkdsk /r
This may get you up and running.

"Last Known Good" is usually "Last Known Bad"!!

Good luck,
Alan

by zulj

Boot up using the XP CD. You'll want to press 'R' to repair and go to the console. Select 1 (if 1. C:\Windows) and Enter. If it asks for a password this is usually just blank or the admin password. Type CHKDSK /R. Should boot fine after that.

I've seen this problem happen before after a power outage. Has something to do with XP's write caching on the hard disk. If you want to disable this write caching goto Device Manager, Disk Drives and Properties of the Hard Disk there. Select Policies and uncheck the check box for Write Caching.

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