Guest Bill S Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 I have another two year old XP, SP2, Symantac, all up to date. On initial booting, I get a "Windows did not start successfully...." I have tried all the options---safe mode, last configuration, etc. All lead to "Unmountable Boot Volume" message and Windows will not start. No recent hardware or software additions. This has happened before, but have always been able to reboot. Not this time after over 20 tries. Solution? -- Bill in California
Guest Terry R. Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Startup problem On 7/5/2007 11:52 AM On a whim, Bill S pounded out on the keyboard > I have another two year old XP, SP2, Symantac, all up to date. On initial > booting, I get a "Windows did not start successfully...." I have tried all > the options---safe mode, last configuration, etc. All lead to "Unmountable > Boot Volume" message and Windows will not start. No recent hardware or > software additions. This has happened before, but have always been able to > reboot. Not this time after over 20 tries. Solution? Hi Bill, Check here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302 -- Terry R. ***Reply Note*** Anti-spam measures are included in my email address. Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Startup problem "Bill S" <BillS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:11B6D39E-4A41-4A2E-897A-1D92CDAD562D@microsoft.com... >I have another two year old XP, SP2, Symantac, all up to date. On initial > booting, I get a "Windows did not start successfully...." I have tried > all > the options---safe mode, last configuration, etc. All lead to > "Unmountable > Boot Volume" message and Windows will not start. No recent hardware or > software additions. This has happened before, but have always been able > to > reboot. Not this time after over 20 tries. Solution? > -- > Bill in California This has a number of possible causes, from loose cabling to disk failure. Often, though, you can fix it by booting with the XP CD to the recovery console, and running "chkdsk /r". http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185 http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000630.htm if you've got a lot of valuable data that hasn't been backed up, consider doing data recovery *before* running chkdsk. HTH -pk
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