Unmountable Boot Error Due To Power Surge
Jul 18, 2005
My computer was on and we had some bad thunder storms and lost power briefly. I now have a blue screen saying I have an "Unmountable Boot Error" and that I should reboot the computer in Safe Mode. When I try this I can get to a menu where I select Safe Mode but after that it takes me right back to the blue sreen with the "Unmountable Boot Error" message.I know I could probably use the restore CD but I'd rather not lose all the
data on my computer.
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Jul 19, 2005
My PC starts up fine, BIOS all OK. Then I get the message about Windows failing to load because of possible power surge or hardware problems or something, and a choice between loading Windows normally, loading the last known working setup, or the three variations on loading safe mode.
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May 1, 2006
I just did a reinstall of my friends E-Machine and when I try to install the printer (hp PSC 2410 xi photosmart all in one) I get this message when I go to plug in the USB cable to the computer from the printer. In the task bar I get this message: "Power surge on hub port. A USB device has exceeded the power limits of its hub port".
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Aug 3, 2007
Ive tried disconnecting and reconnecting it a different cable, a different port, even a different computer.
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Jul 7, 2006
I have a Dell Optiplex GX240 running Windows XP Pro, Pentium 4,512MB of Ram,40G hard drive and an external 200GBHDD. A 250W power supply. The unit has 3 built-in USB 1.1 ports and I added a USB 2.0 PCI Card for the external. I presently have an USB hub port hooked up to one of the USB 1.1 ports, which leaves the other 2 free. On the USB hub port I have an old HPScanjet 3300 scanner, an Intel Webcam and my Sony Cybershot camera. On the USB 2.0 PCI Card I have only my maxtor 200GB external. I am recently getting a balloon red x alert in my system tray that reads "Power surge on hub port" (A USB device has exceeded the power limits of its hub port)and what to do to solve the problem. When I click the message to solve the problem I see a question mark which I then highlight and hit reset.I follow the instructions to reset and it reappears.
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Nov 5, 2006
Got message Power surge on USB hub. Unplugged everything then plugged back in. Mouse (usb) and keyboard (PS/2) no longer work. When I try and power up PC nothing happens that is fans are working but no hard drive activity screen remains black. how I access PC or how can I recover whats on Hard drive?
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Jul 11, 2008
I was on my computer yesterday when there was a power surge. My operating system is windows XP. Since this happened my computer won't restart properly, I get this message:
NTLDR is missing press ctrl + alt + del to restart I have done some research to figure out.
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Jun 17, 2005
Or at least I think so, there was a whopper of a lightning storm and then Windows wouldn't start up the next morning. I've been trying to trouble shoot and am at a standstill close to the answer.
It will start in safe mode
I cannot restore it using the disc
I disabled several things in device manager and that didn't help
I tried the repair from disc as well, doesn't work
I finally reformatted - still doesn't work.
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Nov 12, 2005
I'm not sure how to explain this but I had left my computer on when I went out of town for awhile. When I got home the computer was in standby mode and I could not get out of it so I tried to reboot the computer. It would not turn on so I checked the fan on the power supply and noticed it wasn't working so I replaced the power supply and started the computer. When it was booting up all I got was a blinking light. So I shut it down and installed my hard drive (thinking that was the culprit) into another computer that the same hard drive use to be in and it wouldnt recognize it. I checked the jumpers and the cable and all was correct.
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Jul 31, 2009
My neighborhood had a transformer blow and knocked out the power out within like 2 blocks and ironically im within that and when it happened my computer shut off and wouldnt turn back on anymore. (Prior to this happening every time i turned my computer on it gave me a windows message before loading saying something like "Alert, your power supply is low .. something something" im not sure if that has anything to do with it but yea..) now when i press my power button it flashes like its going to turn on but doesnt just stays off.
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Oct 1, 2007
The whole stop error is: 0x000000ED (0x81FDB900, 0xc000009c, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) OK, so far, I got a copy of Windows XP Professional SP2. I have been trying and trying to get this stupid computer to work. I have attempted to access the recovery console, to no avail. If I hit the boot from CD ROM, it takes me to which operating system to start from I have TWO choices, (??) One is titled Windows XP Professional. If I click that one, it goes to windows startup page, then BSOD. If I click the other (it just says "Microsoft Windows"), it goes to c:/>, and any command I enter says Bad command or file name. No matter what else I hit, it goes to the Windows screen next and then to BSOD- unmountable boot volume and the previous stop error. Sometimes if Im really lucky (pfft!), I get a screen that says: To continue current upgrade to XP Professional press Enter To cancel current upgrade and install new version hit F10 Or to exit without installing windows hit F3 I dont think I should install the new copy of the OS because there is stuff on this drive the owner needs, pictures and such, and he wont be able to recover them if I write over them with a new OS, right? (Even though I have already tried hitting enter, it's the only option it will respond to- and it doesn't install the OS anyway).(He was not in the process of upgrading when all this went haywire). The last screen I can get is the one where you can start in safe mode, etc. But all of the options bring me ultimately to the BSOD.
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Feb 23, 2007
Whenever i turn on my computer it says Unmountable_boot_volume so after a while of searching around, i found that i needed to use the Recovery Console , but whenever i press the key R to recover it, it says Examining 152587 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on iastor. at the bottom, and it stays like that.
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Dec 7, 2008
my laptop keeps having this unmountable boot volume blue screen appear when trying to start comp.. it wont go passe this and i cannot get the comp to start through windows.. i dont have xp disk i dont have anything . how can i get rid of this.. im not that up with comps when they not working.
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May 17, 2005
i'm getting really desperate here. Heres my problem I was on my fully functional computer last night, here are the specs
-Windows XP Home
-512 DDR ram
-Geforce FX 5200
-Intel Pentium 4
-i865Gm-IL **NEW** motherboard (funtioned perfectly)
Alright, last night, the power went out while i was on the computer. When the power comes back on, i get a blue screen saying
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
I absolutely CANNOT get past this screen, i've tried booting in safe mode, and still get nothing. I've tried TONS of commands from the recovery console. When I load up the console it asks me to choose either D:MiniNT (Which i believe is not what i use) and D:I386 I've tried the following commands on BOTH d:MininNT and D:I386
chkdsk /r
chkdsk /f
chkdsk /p
fixboot
fixmbr
I've tried them all, and i get the exact same error, i was on the phone with a good friend whos a comp technician and he had no answers, then I phoned the mobo company, still no answers. I've tried unplugging my HDD, still nothing. I am TOTALLY lost!! could someone
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Sep 29, 2007
I haven't fully rebooted in a week or so, mostly hiberating and that works just fine. I rebooted just today and encountered a blue screen of death indicating something about: "BOOT VOLUME UNMOUNTABLE" For the past 6 hours I've been reading all about this and the related problem: "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." Apparently my disk got corrupted somehow.
It's apparently not as simple as BOOT.INI being bad as is said to be a common problem. My problem seems very severe in the following way: I actually have another Windows XP installation on the same computer. It still works fine as does linux. However, if I try to access the other partition/drive (called e: in the other windows) then I get: "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."
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Jul 22, 2005
On my xp machine i get an unmountable boot volume error. Which says my boot.ini file may be corrupted. So im attempting to reformat but even with my xp disk in i still get the same error followed by a choice to restore previous settings, and two other choices which all end in a blue screen.Does the hard drive need to be or Is there anyway i can boot up in dos to reformat?
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Apr 21, 2008
When booting up to Windows XP disc, i get an error screen that reads: Unmountable_Boot_Volume The problem is that the error screen appears before I can even get to the Windows Setup Welcome screen. So I can't even perform a recovery console procedure. I don't need the files on my hard drive anymore, I just need the computer working.
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Apr 7, 2005
Have a problem with my PC I got a message that said "Unmountable boot volume"..What is this means?
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Jan 10, 2005
i am using xp home on an hp pc (therefore no recovery discs). after a blackout, i got the unmountable boot volume blue screen. i have searched the forums, talked to hp and got the same answers. the problem is none of them work.i cannot restart in safe mode or last good configuration. a friend made the 6 xp set up floppy disks for me and theat gets me into the repair and once there, chkdsk does not work. i have tried both /p and /r and both times i get the message: autochk.exe could not be located in either the startup directory or the cdrom drive.type the full path <including drive letter> for the location of autochk.exe
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Aug 5, 2007
when I woke up this morning and booted up the computer, I noticed it kept restarting.So, I pressed F8 at startup and tried don't restart after system failure. I figured out what the it was. It was the blue screen of death telling me I had a Unmountable Boot Volume. I have tried all the other options to restart windows, even prompt doesn't work.
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Dec 24, 2007
I own a HP Computer (HP Pavilion a630n Desktop PC) whenever I try to boot up my computer I get a error about Unmountable_boot_volume, my computer is running windows XP, I try to bypass this but no matter what I go to it keeps coming up with that error, I try going to safe mode,networking safe mode and the other options I have but it still keeps coming up, How can I get rid of this? Also it comes up as BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death)
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Oct 7, 2007
I recently had a really bad storm which ultimatley shut my power out for a few hours. Upon power returning i tried to boot up my PC and i recieved the dreaded 'unmountable boot' message. I have fixed this error many times for friends and family using the recovery console on my XP disc and of course I proceeded to do just that. However it didnt work at all. I tryed chkdsk /r - fixed some things, rebooted and still blue screen. I tryed chkdsk /p - didnt fix anything, rebooted and still blue screen. I tried fixboot alone and in following both chkdsk operations ( and yes I tried just the chkdsk and and exiting also) and still blue screen persists upon reboot. I really am at a loss for what to do now. Please any help will be welcomed.
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Aug 28, 2008
I then went to the recovery console after booting from the XP CD and tried chkdsk /p with NO success. I was given a different BSoD with a new error relating to the ntfs.sys file and a stop code of: 0x00000024 (0x001902FE, 0xF78FE905, 0xF78FE600, 0xF7F8E2BD) referencing memory address F6F3E2BD @ F6EF0000.
I then ran the dell utility to check HDD structure and memory and the diagnostics came back clean ... NO errors, NO problems.I tried googling those stop codes, but didn't get anything useful back. I need some help with this please. Would copying a new ntfs.sys file help? I am using Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 to view file system and structure and I can see all the files on the disk from the Acronis CD and have the capability to edit files as well if that is needed. Someone please help ... I NEED to at least get this PC to a bootable state to transfer files off it.
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Apr 6, 2005
This is what the BSOD tells me when I try to boot up.I can't boot in safe mode or anything.I'm taking it to a tech in a little while but I want to know what to expect when I get there.Is this a lost cause? Or can it be fixed?I'm on a dell dimension desktop 455 Windows XP SP It's about 2 years old.
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May 2, 2005
I am having a problem loading windows xp home edition. When I try to load windows system takes me to a DOS screen that says the system was intruped. Please choose one of the listed. Every choice takes you to a reload of windows xp and back to the same problem Unmountable Boot Volume. I downloaded a boot disk but the system does not let it boot.
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Dec 5, 2005
Blue screen w/ msg "Unmountable boot volume"Attempted safe mode -no go attempted last known good configuration -no goUsed Windows XP boot disks -attempted torepair Error message said I have no hard disks.
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Dec 21, 2006
My son tried to boot up the other day and got the message Sorry windows can't start" unmountable boot volume". I went to Microsoft's web site and followed the directions on running chkdsk and got it to boot. I ran Spybot and Adaware and defragged the drive and rebooted with no problem. Today he got the same message and same problem. I thought the the hard drive might be going bad but it is not making any unusual noise
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Nov 18, 2007
I'm stumped. Here's the case: I'm trying to install XP, but when I boot from the cd, everything is fine right until the second part of the install ("Press enter to continue installation"). After the preliminary copying of files, I just get a UNMOUNTABLE BOOT DEVICE-error.Here's the full story: I'm running Vista as my primary OS, but as I'm having some trouble with drivers (amazing, right?), I thought, I'd try an install of XP on a different HD. So I tried an install and got the error.I thought, okay, it's Vista messing up. I then unhooked the IDE HDD I was trying to install XP to and tried again, just to rule it out. Got the error again. I then unhooked the SATA drive Vista is on, leaving only the cd-rom and the IDE HDD in the comp. This time I thought it would work without problems, but no, I got the error again! I've tried 3 different IDE drives, 1 at a time of course, but I get the error everytime.
I've tried changing the cables, switch master and slave, looked at every option in the BIOS and used a RAID driver I got off my mobo manufacturers site (I don't see why that would help, as the SATA drive wasn't even used, but I had to try!).I've searched the internet high and low, and sure enough, there's a lot of experince with this error out there, but NONE AT ALL have gotten it during an install.Most solutions claim a chkdsk /r using recovery console might help, but as I can't get to the recovery console, I can't try it through XP... I can still boot Vista without any problems, so I ran a chkdsk /F /R using that, but no errors were found... But I'm starting to rule out the fault being in the HDD - I've simply tried too many different ones for that to be the case!
I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 mobo, and I'm starting to think, this might be needing an update, but as there are three different revisions of this mobo, and I can't determine which one mine is, I can't find the correct update.I tried the online updater Gigabyte offers, but it only sugested som minor drivers for my LAN and audio card, which is already working perfectly. I usually manage to fix these problems by searching the net, but this time I'm completely lost! I know this is my first post here, but I really hope, someone is able to help me.
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Dec 8, 2005
I have xp professional and my computer had alot of random viruses on it. So I decided to format the hard drive just to start a new. When I go to reinstall windows right before the screen you can pick to repair or install windows I get the blue screen of death.
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Jan 3, 2006
I have a laptop, Sony Vio, and I am getting this error message "Unmountable Boot Volume". It won't boot in safe mode, or last known good...etc, or anything else. I have the restore cd's, but that prompts me to reformat the hard drive and I don't want to do that and lose everything. Back in '99 when I was in school I had the similar problem with my desktop and everyone said I would have to reformat, but my teacher did a few things and brought back the volume without losing anything but of course that was many moons ago.
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Sep 27, 2006
I am just wondering if there is any way we can fix this unmountable boot volume problem with out using the xp disk. I have tried getting into safe mode with command prompt but we still get the lovely blue screen of death..
Is there any other way to get around it or do I need the disk to do a repair fixboot
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