Comments on: Fixing a Windows Unmountable Boot Volume

By: Elaine

Elaine — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:02:54 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU SAVED MY LIFE and computer THANK YOU!!!!! Your instructions are the best

Also since I didn’t have a windows XP CD this website also saved my life. So for those who don’t own a windows XP installation CD download this package to access the Recovery Console.

http://tips.vlaurie.com/2006/05/23/recovery-console-for-those-without-an-xp-disk/

By: paul

paul — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:29:02 +0000

holy crap it worked! simple enough also! my only issue was figuring out how to get into BIOS to move the cdrom to the 1st boot device. I’m still not sure how I did that but I did and everything went smoothly. Thanks for saving me a few $$$!!!

By: C C

C C — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:52:32 +0000

Hi I’ve been stuck with this for 2 days and I still can’t figure out what to do!!! I went into recovery console and pressed R then I typed in chkdsk /r and after more than one hour at 28% completed it says “The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems”.
Then I type in fixboot c and it came back saying Fixboot cannot open the partition” Please help me I have all my real estate saved here. Is this suppose to go all the way to 100% cuz mine just went to 28% when I got the message?

By: Bret

Bret — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:06:59 +0000

Glad I could help Kyle. Thanks for the positive feedback.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:20:39 +0000

Thanks for the information. The information you posted saved my laptop! I thought I was doomed, but luckily I found your site.

By: Teddy Gray

Teddy Gray — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:02:04 +0000

Thanks for the help. Worked like a charm after I found my XP CD. Had the Blue screen and it was caused by a virus. After I got it back up, I ran Malbytes “free” version and it cleaned my computer of the virus.
Thanks again

By: Riki

Riki — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:19:13 +0000

All Hail Bret! Thanks so much. I know you’ve heard it before, but you saved my (6 years worth of data and valuable programs) butt.
A portion of the volume was unrecoverable and FIXBOOT couldn’t find a boot partition; but it booted right up into XP! Thanks again.

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:08:58 +0000

Hi Ryan glad you found the article useful. Thanks for the positive feedback

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:10:29 +0000

Thank you so much! My computer hasn’t worked in 3 weeks! I followed your steps and everything is great!

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:28:24 +0000

Hi Melissa thanks for the question. Unfortunately you don’t have many options as I see it. If your laptop is fairly new (made in the last few years — newer is better), then it might allow you to boot it from a USB drive. Trick is you need to get an OS onto a USB drive to boot from it. Here is one article I found that outlines the process to create a bootable USB thumb drive (http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php). If that doesn’t work for you, you can always try and get your hands on an external USB connection capable CD ROM drive to boot from. Final option is the one you don’t want — dismantle machine and remove laptop and place in an external drive enclosure so you can at least salvage your data.

Hope that helps.