Boot.ini file help BSOD?

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Handy Helper | August 6, 2010 at 5:28 am |

Having a quick look the unmountable boot volume error does indeed seem to either be a stuffed up filesystem or messed up boot.ini, so you’re on the right track.

All the sites I’m finding talk about booting into the xp recovery console (booting from your xp install disc and hitting r when prompted) then doing a chkdsk. This site also mentions a fixboot command which may whisk away your woes:

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

If you’ve struggled just to get this info / the site does down, I’ll copy it below for you.

Good luck!

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When booting up to Win XP you may get a error that reads “Unmountable Boot Volume”. This is probably because your boot.ini file is messed up.

So, what do you do about it, panic and try to mount your boot in your computer…… No that is probably not a good idea.

You can boot to the XP cd and when you see the Welcome to setup press the letter R
You will get a dos prompt
Then type “chkdsk /p” without the quotes and hit enter
When that is done type “fixboot” and hit enter
“Y” and enter at the prompt
Then type “exit” and hit enter
The system will now reboot into Windows

If for some reason that don’t work for you, you can boot to the recovery console like above and…
Type “chkdsk /r” then enter
When done type “exit” and hit enter.
This will take longer, but the system should boot back into Windows.
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