Dutch

that is exactly what i meant i just couldnt remem the order

and now just today my comp has packed in, crashes all the time and wheni restart i have do do a chkdsk but that always crashes (dunno y its not boot files its all the indexes are corrupt along witj like another 100 core files)
i am now doing it that way - last time i don it it took 2hrs
dont worry if ur doing it and the percentage drops mine usually goes up to 75% then drops back down to 50% and takes like twice as long
but it usuall works

thanks Dutch and pbman. :beer:

I managed to fix my laptop last night - at first I tried booting from an external hard drive but for some reason I didn't have much luck.

So then I went into the recovery console and typed 'chkdsk /p' which did a search through the drive and when that was done I typed 'fixboot' which seemed to fix the problem.

XP booted normally and all of my work was fine so I quickly made some back ups. Just wish I hadn't waited so long to try a repair.

Here are a couple of links which deal with the error: 'Unmountable Boot Volume'.

http://www.techtips4u.com/kb/sw/SW00014.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302

sorry to hear that you are having some problems pbman. Hope you manage to sort it out.

glad u got it sorted also while ur at it hake a md-dos bootable floopy disk as well can come in handy (insert flopy . in my computer right click floppy and format check create ms-dos bootable)

thx arran - finished the scans and now its fine, i hope it stays like it but my comp has broken down about 10 times in a year one of which set ther psu on fire:headbang:

waah! fire and pc - that does not sound good!

thanks for the advice on the floppy disc. :beer: