I think this is a HD problem...

[DiR[ëctory]]

The past couple days I have been getting random restarts, errors in applications, even in explorer.exe.

Today, it restarted on me, then I got an error in DrWatson32.exe...when it restarted i got a blue screen with UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME...

Is my HD gone? It's a maxtor 60 gig... I tried booting to safe mode but get the same BSOD. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Garak]

have you ran some form of diag tool or scandisk on the drive?

it's possibley a faulty drive, or maybe just a corrupt fat...

[emr]

Boor to the recovery console and run chkdsk /r for starters. That will check and repair any errors.

Maybe get inside the box too and verufy the ide cables, swap them out if you can.

Where does it get to in the boot sequence?

emr

[DiR[ëctory]]

Originally posted by emr
Boor to the recovery console and run chkdsk /r for starters. That will check and repair any errors.

Maybe get inside the box too and verufy the ide cables, swap them out if you can.

Where does it get to in the boot sequence?

emr

I will try that, it gets as far as loading all the drives checking S.M.A.R.T capabilities yada yada, right before the win xp pro boot screen...

[Platypus]

I also thought check IDE cable.

This article any help?

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q297185

[tracker0563]

I'd pull the drive and hook it up to another XP machine and see if you can access it. Might wanna try ghosting it to another drive as well (had good luck with that on a laptop drive...the other XP box said the drive needed to be formatted, but, ghost saw the partitions and whatnot and copied everything..drive did have bad sectors though)


Craig