Hi
I’m having trouble with a Toshiba R100 ultraportable laptop running XP SP1. 1st week into a vacation in France, I spilled a small bit of wine on it resulting in some keyboard keys not working. The same day a new keyboard was delivered, I got hard disk boot error “unmountable boot volume 0x000000ED “. So I didn’t even get to replace the keyboard. Since the laptop has no internal CD/DVD device I can’t run any diagnostics or run chkdsk or bootfix utilities as various threads suggest.
So before ordering a new hard disk, I wanted to ensure that’s the only problem, or whether I need a new laptop. I went to a French Toshiba dealer – utterly useless – even claimed the hard disk couldn’t be ordered – they’re the same HD as used in Ipods (TOSHIBA 40GB 1.8” HARD DRIVE 4200RPM 2MB MK4004GAH).
I thought of creating a bootable USB using my wife’s laptop. Unfortunately it’s running Vista and Barts PE utility doesn’t seem available for Vista.
So I’m at a dead end, Toshiba head office is 6 hours drive away, and I’m in transit, won’t be home for another 4 weeks.
Any ideas? on how to diagnose or boot up the laptop? Or should I just sip the red wine and call it a lost cause 😉