re: Unmountable boot volume when installing XP
Monday, February 11, 2002 at 7:46 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam
(1 messages posted)
I have just had this error occur on two different machines running Windows XP, and
with two completely different hardware setups. One was on a brand new 20Gig Maxtor
and on a Brand New 40 Gig Western Digital. After this fails, I tried reformatting
and the drives both report bad sectors. So I ran the WD & Maxtor diagnostic utilities
and they both report an "Uncorrectable ECC error, replace the drive".
Is it possible XP is screwing up the drives?
On Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 9:31 pm, Jason Stratton wrote:
>I have researched this problem and found that the VIA 4n1 drivers have been reported
>as being a potential source of your problems. It seems that durring shut down information
>is not being written properly to disk. After time this corrupts the registry and
>you receive errors like this. Symptoms leading up to this is LONG shutdown times,
>errors durring shut down, and event log entries refering to unwritable disks. Use
>the above checkdisk method to boot and remove the 4n1 drivers, use the standard
MS
>XP drivers... this helped me.
>
>J
>
>
>On Monday, February 4, 2002 at 8:47 pm, Dean Davidson wrote:
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>I am having same error with xp but mine finally installed now if i shut system
>down
>it takes at leats 10 restarts to get system back up it keeps showing unmountable
>boot volume. I tried different hard drives , different video cards , stripped system
>down to just hard drive and motherboard still same error. I have a shuttle AV40
>motherboard and i think that is where the issue is coming from. So i am ordering
>a different brand motherboard to see if problem is resolved. I am using P4 1.6
>
> 20 gig western digital
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