Unmountable Boot Volume & Vista

mrochester · 1 Feb 2007 at 00:15

So I currently have Vista dual-booting along side XP (same hard drive, 2 separate partitions). Vista is very tempremental when it comes to booting, and will often spit out the error 'Unmountable boot volume' once or twice before finally booting. The volume is obviously not unmountable since Vista does eventually boot, but it is very irritating to have to restart a few times to get into the OS. I have had at *least* 3 installations of Vista since I got my genuine copy, and each one has had exactly the same problem. Meanwhile, XP boots just fine with no such problem at all.

Can anyone offer a solution to this? Searching for Unmountable Boot Volume on Google and such just brings back results for XP. I've endured a whole range of problems in Vista so far... this is just the icing on the cake.

TIA,

Michael.

modo77 · 1 Feb 2007 at 00:31

I'm getting this too, going to have a propper play around tomorrow while I'm off work to try sort it..

mrochester · 1 Feb 2007 at 00:36

modo77 said:
I'm getting this too, going to have a propper play around tomorrow while I'm off work to try sort it..

Great I'd love to know if you find a solution, it's driving me round the bend.

Tute · 1 Feb 2007 at 00:51

To add to that, I had a really odd problem when installing Vista.

I bought a new hard drive to install it on, and new hard drives come unpartitioned.

When I tried to boot with the Vista disk, it would try and copy files to the HDD, find there was none, and BSOD on me.

I had to get around the problem by formatting the HDD using the WIN2K setup disk that I have. Only then would it install.

Since then it's been running like a dream though.

modo77 · 1 Feb 2007 at 12:05

Hmm think my problem is a bit different to yours. Vista will only boot when I have the DVD in. Without it I get unmountable... I take it this isn't happening with you?
I've tried repairing the startup off the dvd, but it doesn't find any errors.

modo77 · 1 Feb 2007 at 12:17

Right well it seems the boot drive isn't the one I installed Vista on. Its put the boot files on my old ATA drive. Changed the BIOS to this drive and its booting ok. would have thought the boot files would have been installed on the same drive as Vista.