Stop error - Please help ASAP

I was trying stand by and hibernate in win xp and instead of powering off or going in stand by, the system rebooted but the power to the network cards was off.

I rebooted and they still were off so I disconected the power for 10 seconds, reconnected it and now I get a "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" after the Windows XP logo appears. Both safe mode and restore to last known good configuration cause the same error.

If this helps, the error occurs while the windows XP logo fades in as it appears. Instead of fading in completly, it fades in partially, stops fading in for a few seconds and then that error appears.

Is there a way to fix this without formatting my hard drive (I dont have a recent backup)?

Thanks

The first thing that I would recommend would be to boot from your CD and select the "Repair" option. Then select the "Recovery Console".

I would then recommend running chkdsk /r to repair the disk. That has worked for me quite a few times. If that doesn't work, you could at least pull the drive and put it in another Win2k/WinXP box to get the data off of it.

Also take a look here:
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q297/1/85.ASP" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q297/1/85.ASP</a>

Thanks that worked! You just saved me at least a day of work!

Thanks again

Any time.

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