Unmountable Boot Volume

stokecity_m · 22 Oct 2011 at 00:23

Tried loading up the laptop and it blue screens, and comes up with Unmountable Boot Volume.

I've put the windows 7 disc in to try and repair but all it does is goings to the loading files screen - any idea how i can get it to load the repair section?

Cheers

Craig321 · 22 Oct 2011 at 01:17

When you boot from the Windows 7 disc you have a Repair button at the bottom of the first window (after language selection). Do you not get this? It should offer a command prompt, repair, etc.

stokecity_m · 22 Oct 2011 at 01:21

Craig321 said:
When you boot from the Windows 7 disc you have a Repair button at the bottom of the first window (after language selection). Do you not get this? It should offer a command prompt, repair, etc.

no doesn't get to that bit.

It reads the disc and then just continues to loads windows 7, that loads up but all that is shown on the screen is the white cursor and black background.

Craig321 · 22 Oct 2011 at 01:25

Download Ubuntu, burn it to a disc, boot from that and see if you can get to the hard drive & your files. At least then you can find out if it's still alive.

Have you checked that the hard drive is still showing up in the BIOS?

stokecity_m · 22 Oct 2011 at 01:38

yeah hard drive is fine as i can run windows memory test.

Craig321 · 22 Oct 2011 at 10:52

Are you able to try another Windows disc? Or, if you have another W7 machine you can create a system repair disc.

stokecity_m · 22 Oct 2011 at 12:54

Craig321 said:
Are you able to try another Windows disc? Or, if you have another W7 machine you can create a system repair disc.

tried both my windows 7 original, a windows 7 recovery disc and the burnt windows 7 disc that was used on the laptop.