Unmountable Boot Volume BLUE SCREEN ERRORS on startup?
Hard drive not detecting in Windows?
Try these steps before blowing $1,000 dollars on Data-Recovery
It's common to get hard drive errors over time. All hard drives will permanently degrade slowly over time. Some brands faster than others. It's your job to run scandisk and error-checking utilities on your hard drives to detect bad sectors on your hard drives. If you don't, Windows will write data to that bad sector and you have lost that information forever (in many cases). In most cases, you may have files already written to a bad sector of a hard drive but you never noticed because you don't use that file often. In this case, your Windows isn't booting because a file needed to boot Windows happened to be on a bad sector. First off, find the Windows XP CD that came with your computer or the one that you used to install Windows XP onto that computer. If you can't find it, just use any Windows XP CD that you can find. Boot off the CD as if you were to re-install Windows XP from scratch. Select the option to use the Recovery Console. Once in the recovery console, you will find yourself at a DOS prompt.
From here, type in "chkdsk /r" This may take a while, restart your computer when finished.
If this doesn't work, use "chkdsk /p" This may take a while, restart your computer when finished. In the future, make sure you check your hard drives for errors every now and then. That's the best away to avoid corruption on your boot volume. You can do so by right-clicking you drives while in "My Computer", and click on Properties. Then click on "Tools" and then "Check Now".
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