unmountable boot volume

**Steve2004** · August 29th, 2004, 09:36 PM

Hi, I have a Toshiba laptop with dual boot XP home(JP)-the original OS and Pro(EN). The HD is partitioned with Partition magic (v8.0 - jap edition). It worked fine til yesterday, but now I can't boot the XP home - it says unmountable boot volume. From the XP pro (drive D) the C drive is just present on explorer, but can't be accessed, red, formated or whatever. I can't change the start-up option to read from FDD or CD instead of HDD, because the BIOS setup is only accessible from a program called Toshiba HW setup, which I don't have in D: and can't install from the recovery CD, because it's trying to install it by default in C: and it can't. How to load the recovery console?
Any ideas? Please!!!

**MobilePCPhysician** · August 29th, 2004, 10:00 PM

Unmountable boot volume error is usually fixed by running chkdsk at the recovery console. You should be able to press the f8 ket during boot to get to the boot screen. Then select safe mode command prompt. Here is a link that will help: http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

**Steve2004** · August 29th, 2004, 10:50 PM

to MobilePCPhysician:
safe mode doesn't work as well - same blue screen as above. I can't load the recovery console. can't make it boot from floppy or cd.
The article you kindly sent me says: "If the second parameter (0xbbbbbbbb) of the Stop error is 0xC0000032, then the file system is damaged." , but this is not the case.