tattsyrup

Hi, the blue screen says UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME The rest looks pretty standard apart from the tchnical info at the bottom which is Stop : 0x000000ED (ox8AC42E30, 0xc0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 Cheers

Hi. When starting my PC it goes through all the memory tests and finds all the drives etc and does the DMI updating. It then goes to the "windows" screen briefly before flashing up the blue screen of death (too quickly to read) and rebooting. I've disconnected all the hardware except RAM and graphics card (which I've taken out and refitted) and have tried both the RAM cards individually in case one was fried. I've also tried a different HDD with a working version of XP installed (I know it works I'm using it now) but with the same result. Please can anyone suggest anything

Thanks for all your help I've done a couple of scans with demo versions - one with Paretologic and one with Power Data Recovery. The Pareto one looks better to me as it's identifying the file names and the former directories rather than just a long list of "recovered image file00001.jpg" etc. It'll make it much easier to find the bits I want as there are about 15000 files in the drive. Thanks for all your help :D

OK, I'm up and running.:D Didn't do anything different this time but for some reason I could reinstall Windows onto my MAXTOR drive. I still cant get the system to show me the Seagate drive. The Admin Tools Disk Management tool shows that Seagate is there but all the space is shown as unallocated. I have the opten to initialise it but i think that that would reformat the drive - is that right? I don't want to lose the data coz the first photos of my new baby are on there somewhere. I know that the data is still on the disk coz I've done a scan with some recovery software and that looks to have found just about everything. Is there any way to "initialise" the drive without reformatting ? - if not I will have to buy the recovery software before I reformat. Thanks for all your posts so far. Just as a matter for info - I'm not using one of those bits of kit that moley posted, the drives are plugged straight into the onboard SATA ports on the MOBO. The BIOS still shows them as IDE 2 &3 but what the hell it seems to be working.

It certainly used to contain an OS. I can't install a new one as it tells me there are no drives to install to. Is there any way I can find out which components are at the heart of the problem as I only want to replace the fied ones? My seagate drive has never had windows on it - Should I just be able to put this into another computer and off it goes?

Hiya I'm Tattsyrup, home on paternity leave at the moment helping with my second - 1 week old Ryan. Brought some work home with me to do and of course the PC blew up ( oh well, they'll just have to wait). Usually mange to sort out most of my own problems but am stumped this time so joined seeking guidance. I'm fairly good with sound / music type issues. Cheers

It runs apparently normally until :- verifying DMI Pool Data........... Boot from CD/DVD: Boot from CD/DVD: NVIDIA Boot Agent 201.0462 Copyright © 2001-2004 NVIDIA Corporation Copyright © 1997- 2000 Intel Corporation Then it hangs for about 2 minutes and comes up with PXE-E61 Media Test Failure, Check Cable PXE-M0F:Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK & PRESS ENTER

ok so the old IDE drive is a bit of a red herring (but it has always worked for me changing boot drives between mine and my dads computers - both quite old and both IDE only. I'll leave the IDE out of it. The SATA drives are on the SATA sockets that they have always worked fine on. The BIOS is identifying the drives but is telling me that they are IDE channel 2 & 3. Boot order is CD first then my Maxtor 300GB drive. Still getting to the INSERT SYSTEM DISK stage. When I try reinstalling windows it is telling me that I have no hard drives

I've flashed the BIOS to the newest version and the PC is now recognising the 2 SATA HDDs on IDE Channel 2 Master and IDE Ch 3 Master. I'm getting as far as the nVidia Boot Agent then am getting an error as below :- PXE-E61: Media Test Failure Check Cable PXE-M0F: Exiting NVidea Boot Agent INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. I've tried the old IDE drive again ( I know it works in a different system coz I'm using it now) and it gets so far and flashes a fatal blue screen error and powers off and back on and carries on doing that on a loop

I have 2 SATA HDDs. The computer was on and working fine and then there was some sort of power fluctuation in the house (lights dimmed etc) and the computer switched itself off and it won't reboot. I have got a surge protecting extension lead but it seems too much of a coincidence not to be connected. The computer doesn't appear to be able to find either of the HDDs. I've tried connecting an old IDE HDD that I know works but it wouldn't fire up with that one either. I've also tried both my SATA drives in a friends computer which recognizes the new hardware but wont display it on My Computer but on the hardware manager they appear to be empty. Also my friends SATA drive which works fine on his PC isn't recognised by my system. I've tried to reinstall XP but it gets so far and tells me that there are no Hard drives to install on. I'm hoping that both HDDs & Mobo are not fried but I'm not confident. Please help My system is Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Mobo Athlon 3200+ processor 2Gb Ram 300gb Maxtor Sata HDD - boot drive 750gb seagate barracuda GeForce 6600 Graphics Card EMU 1820 Sound Card