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re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP
Sunday, January 27, 2002 at 8:20 am
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Posted by Joakim (1 messages posted)


Hey there! Seems like your problem is the driver for the UDMA-controller... Have had the same prob. myself.... Update drivers and take a clean install of your operating system, think that should do it... CEST; Joakim


On Monday, December 17, 2001 at 7:04 pm, ZenMaster wrote:
>My first advice is a bit unrelated, but might be of eventual use; if possible, back
>up what you need, and re-format your hard drive for a clean install of XP. It is
>much happier overall (and more stable in my experience) on an NTFS partition than
>on the FAT32 partition it will keep if you "upgrade" from a previous version of windows.
>
>A blue screen while installing seems to indicate that one of the two disks involved
>has an error; either your hard drive or your Win XP CD. If possible, check both.
> Make a Win98 boot floppy, boot from it, and scandisk your hard drive. Similarly
>inspect your Win XP disk. If there appears to be some kind of physical damage to
>it, try and borrow someone else's for the installation.
>
>Good Luck.
>
>


>On Monday, December 17, 2001 at 9:53 am, Janaid wrote:
>sup!!
>
>when i am about to install XP over windows 98, it starts then copys the installation
>files which is normal, re-boots which is normal
>
>I then press enter on continue with XP installation, then it loads, then it stops
>loading and a blue screen comes up saying:
>
>UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
>
>And comes up with the code:
>
>0x00000ED
>(0x81B55030, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
>
>please help because windows 98 is annoying and boring as hell
>


Written in response to:
re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (ZenMaster: Monday, December 17, 2001 at 7:04 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (shaun davies: Saturday, February 2, 2002 at 4:45 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (Janaid: Mon, Dec 17, 2001, 9:53 am)
-re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (ZenMaster: Mon, Dec 17, 2001, 7:04 pm)
-re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (Joakim: Sun, Jan 27, 2002, 8:20 am)
*re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (shaun davies: Sat, Feb 2, 2002, 4:45 am)
-re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (Dean Davidson: Mon, Feb 4, 2002, 8:47 pm)
-re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (Anon: Tue, Feb 5, 2002, 9:31 pm)
-re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (Adam: Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 7:46 pm)
-re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (Mark: Mon, Jul 8, 2002, 2:55 pm)
-re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (Ronnie: Wed, Jul 10, 2002, 3:39 pm)
-re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (Dave: Sun, Jul 21, 2002, 3:45 pm)
-re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (rm_annoyances: Tue, Jul 25, 2006, 8:35 pm)
*re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP (john: Tue, Jul 17, 2007, 6:54 pm)
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