blue screen of death on my toshiba satellite A100 SK4 with SP3

[antonio]

good day folks - i need some help. i am getting the blue screen of death on my toshiba. the message is unmountable_boot_volume. i have tried the different windows options to start it and nothing works. i have the recovery disk but i would like to recover some files if possible.

i always end up on the dreaded blue screen. the techincal information is:

*** STOP: 0x00000ED (0x86308590,0xC0000006,0x00000000,0x00000000)

any help would be appreciated!

one more piece of info: i am running XP

[Anupam]

antonio, please look at these pages, for solving this error :

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

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000630.htm

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2605/..._volume_error/

According to the article on second page, this can be caused by a corrupt boot.ini, or a bad hard disk.

All three links have steps to solve the problem. Microsoft page, and had third page have clear steps how to boot into recovery console, if you dont know how to. You will need the XP disc to do that.

[26Dolphins]

Does not sound good.
Please, report back.

Good luck.

[antonio]

thanks anupam - i read thru the links and i think i need to give a bit more detail - i dont have the original windows xp install disks - the laptop came with a toshiba recovery disk but it only ends up wanting to overwrite the hard drive and reinstall from a hidden partition on the hard drive.

i do have another laptop (the one im using to write this message) but its running the 64-bit version of windows vista. the bad laptop is running the 32-bit windows xp.

does this make any difference?

[antonio]

hey folks - i downloaded and burned a cd using hiren's boot cd 11.0 - i will get back to you with any news!

[antonio]

well...i am back on my laptop...oh joy, oh bliss. i lost nothing...and yes i am tempting the bsod gods because i just backed up my files.

thank you anupam for the links, in responses associated with the articles i got clued into hiren's boot cd 11.0 (now part of my sos toolkit). while i didnt fully understand everything each utility did, i understood enough to get things all squared away!

thanks again!!!!!!
another satisfied gizmo customer!

[Anupam]

antonio, good to hear that your problem was solved, and you are able to use your laptop again. However, I must warn you about Hiren's boot CD. I have seen this mentioned on various forums, and it was mentioned on Wiki too. Hiren's Boot CD contains many copyright infringement software, and therefore it is considered warez and even illegal. We here do not recommend it. You are free to use it on your own risk.

Some references :

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=182798

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...oot-cd-729156/

[antonio]

dayum! i didnt come across THAT little bit of info in the readings!

i guess my sos toolkit will be short one cd...

[Anupam]

There are other free, very useful, excellent boot CDs available. You can give them a try .

Ultimate Boot CD : http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

UBCD for Windows : http://www.ubcd4win.com/