HELP!!! - unmountable boot volume

Tobeornottobe · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:09

Every faith in these forums, but I think my HDD is scragged on my laptop. XP home installation

When I attempt to boot, get BSOD "unmountable boot volume". Booting from XP disc and using the recovery console I have tried chkdsk /r, but it stalls after 41% and I get "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems" . I am assuming that my HDD has failed.

Anything else anyone can suggest?

Thanks

Tobeornottobe · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:40

thanks. trying now.........

Tobeornottobe · 20 Dec 2006 at 20:42

Right,

fixmbr didn't work. Ran Hitachi driver fitness test, and it comes up with "defective device. component failure" so I suppose I am up a certain creek without a means of propulsion.

Tobeornottobe · 20 Dec 2006 at 21:06

thanks, but all that tried to no avail.

Tobeornottobe · 20 Dec 2006 at 21:11

I'll try that Knoppix later. thanks

Tobeornottobe · 21 Dec 2006 at 06:36

After running the Hitachi utility a couple of times, still didn't repair all the damaged sectors but it booted! Busy backing up before it finally croaks.