ProGaMeR Posted October 1, 2004 Posted October 1, 2004 (edited) I was on computer yesterday and I was playing Starcraft, and then my computer did a mini restart, then froze. I restarted, it was fine, and then I had computer on for like 1 hour, then it happened again. I restarted, and it gave me an error that windows has to shut down to prevent further damage. It's an unmoutable boot volume, and I can't get passed the windows xp start screen (where the blue thing tells progress). Then it give me the ( i think ) hexidecimal shiz. I don't know what it is and I am pretty sure it won't let me get even there anymore. Any suggestions?? ~Steve~ Edited October 1, 2004 by ProGaMeR Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTSticky Posted October 1, 2004 Posted October 1, 2004 Try to boot into Safe mode w/command prompt. Alternately, boot with a CD or Floppy that has a disk check tool on it. I think you know already that your hard drive is the problem. Now it's time to see if it's 1 bad sector or if the thing is toast. You could also just put it into another machine and run chkdsk/scandisk on it. That'd probably be easier. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProGaMeR Posted October 1, 2004 Posted October 1, 2004 Thanks for the help, but I can't do safe mode (However, I didn't try w/ command prompt). When you say try a floppy or cd, how can I get one of these? Thank you soooo much. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted October 1, 2004 Posted October 1, 2004 Unmountable boot volume. I remember those from College Anyway, does safe mode do it too? Are you overclocking? I've had some kinda problem like that with Windows 2000 ... when I removed my motherboard drivers the wrong way with driver cleaner. I ended up having to reinstall The windows repair thing in setup is absolutely useless! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProGaMeR Posted October 1, 2004 Posted October 1, 2004 Do any of you know WHAT CAUSES THIS? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTSticky Posted October 1, 2004 Posted October 1, 2004 Bad/Failed hardware Overclocking Virii are the main causes. As for a bootable CD or floppy with a disk check tool... If it's formatted with Fat32, you can make a bootable windows98/dos floppy and put scandisk.exe on it. If it's NTFS, you're kinda hosed, you need something that can read NTFS. Spinrite 6 will do it, but that costs money.. there may be free tools Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eva_Unit_0 Posted October 1, 2004 Posted October 1, 2004 Another big cause of that is if you don't do custom startup/login screens correctly. I've gotten that before, and I ended up reformatting. The easiest way to salvage it, I think, would be to plug the hd into another comp and run scandisk from there. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrusk Posted October 1, 2004 Posted October 1, 2004 are you overclocking at all? Because that can cause corruption of the filesystem. Ive seen it happen, it happened to me once. I suggest you find a way to backup your data then format and reinstall. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProGaMeR Posted October 1, 2004 Posted October 1, 2004 No, I'm not overclocking. All I do is play Starcraft, and go to sites to learn about computers. Thanks for the help people. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted October 1, 2004 Posted October 1, 2004 Strange. Alot of my old College's computers randomly did it. I always just blamed Windows XP, because i'm like that Oh, here's a link that might help.. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...md_stp_xlxv.asp EDIT: Just read that and saw it mentions an NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM blue screen. I had that occuring and in my case it's because my PSU was maxed out with my overclock. I doubt it's that, but you know... if you're still having problems after formatting or whatever you're going to do then it might be worth thinking about. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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