Is within a passageway of recovering information from a tattered knotty drive?
My laptop (a Dell running XP) crashed and now whenever I switch it on it get as far as the Windows loading screen back giving the blue screen "umountable boot volume" error.
I've tried booting from the Windows disc and running recovery console and using chkdsk /r and /p but get the message "unrecoverable problems". (Fixboot doesn't work either). I also tried 'dir c:' to see if any of the files are accessible but that give an error message too, so it doesn't seem to be capable of read anything of the hard drive.
I've since bought a trial laptop but is there anything I can do to recover the background on the old one? Most of it be backed up so probably not worth paying a ample amount.
Answers:
In cases like this, never try to do anything yourself - clutch it to the professionals so they can recover what data you hold. Of course they will charge but small cost compared to possibility of losing everything.
If you cannot access the files on the drive send to a professional to procure the data recovered. distribute it to a data recovery service. This can be tremendously costly but its worth every penny if the data is substantial to you.
How did it get undermined?
You can buy a external drive holder from PC World for a small amount, where you can install the Harddrive - you may be capable of "see" the data through this and be capable of recover it.
This is the only picking without getting it professionally recovered - but this could be expensive.
Good luck.
fixboot is apposite, but try fixmbr. it will give you a restraining, but what do you have to loose? it have worked for me.
unmountable boot volume refers to a boot sector problem on the harddrive. not a hardware or windows base problem. whether you get your info past its sell-by date or not, you can just format the HD and reinstall window and use your computer again.
another answerer said get an external paddock, you can do that or put the harddrive in another computer. if your using a laptop beside an IDE interface, you'll need to procure a "laptop to desktop ide converter" from ebay, they cost 5 bucks. if its a SATA nouns, you can just connect it straight to your motherboard.. external work area is probably easier, other way is my preferred track.
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