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[rokucheeba.livejournal.com]

unmountable boot volume.
what is this "unmountable boot volume" that you speak of, dear xp?

i gotta fix this pos - that doesn't boot up to xp, even if it asks you
if you want to boot to safe mode, normal etc ..

now whenever i pick one of the options, it says:
unmountable boot volume

i've tried to format it and it says it doesn't reconize the c: drive,
but when i go to the c: drive it says "ram drive".

now, does anybody have any answers? please, and thanks.

Comments

[drnazo.livejournal.com]

Look at this document (http://support.gateway.com/s/issues/158032510.shtml) first and see if that fixes your problem. Might as well try this before doing the format.

As far as the formatting goes... Chances are the drive is NTFS so it wouldn't exactly be much like formatting a 9x drive. Although, the drive could be faulty. The best thing to do would be to run a good ol trusty program called GWSCAN (ftp://ftp.gateway.com/pub/hardware_support/drivers/win3.x_and_dos/mass_storage/hard_drives/7510801.exe) from Gateway that tests the drive. If it's fine I would do a low level format on the drive using GWSCAN to write zeros to the drive. After that, fdisk, format, and boot up from the XP disk and let it format the drive in whatever format you like and continue with the install. This seems to be the most reliable way.

Good luck.