Comments on: Fixing the dreaded “Unmountable Boot Volume” error

By: doebuckey

doebuckey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:12:50 +0000

Same thing happen to me. I tried it again and hit the r key immediately after the screen appeared and it went to the next step. I hope it works for you.

By: novice100

novice100 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:21:27 +0000

I can't find the original installation disks, although can borrow a friends copy. It was purchased through Dell, preinstalled and I could probably find a receipt. I'm not a pc expert.

By: daftvader

daftvader — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:36:16 +0000

many thanks for the guidance ,which was spot on took about 30 mins start to finish .after wasting a week with a live cd and hirens boot cd (not really knowing which tools to use )
thanks to the simple almost idiot proof instructions i could save my friends data

By: Name

Name — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:53:01 +0000

No!

By: jenni

jenni — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:21:55 +0000

Do the above steps delete personal files from the HDD?

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:51:31 +0000

Just used this guide to save my computer from the blue screen of death, thanks very much brilliant stuff.

By: jgruda

jgruda — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:56:12 +0000

Any help if you try the abpve steps and it freezes on the blue screen after you hit r and it never makes it to the DOS mode?

By: harryz

harryz — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:40:58 +0000

No, I could not fix it.
The head of the hard drive was gone.

By: bobbyohara

bobbyohara — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:07:42 +0000

I get the same hard drive not installed msg. So I can't boot from a cd and get to the screen with the chkdsk/r etc. Did you fix it? If so how?

By: mikepjr

mikepjr — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:04:39 +0000

I've tried doing this but when I got to 41%
it says the voluime appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems and the boot sector cannot be fixed…

does this mean I have to reformat?
nyays!!