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Originally posted by Caphreak
Ok, so i get this computer in from a relative to fix it. Power up, blue screen of death, with an unmountable boot volume problem. So i load up the recovery console, and do a 'FIXBOOT C:', nothing. Then i do a CHKDSK /R and it fixes the problem. So i repair about 40-50 viruses after that, during which time i restart several times. Im fairly confident i got all the viruses. I restart one last time to clear any funny messages on startup, and i get the blue screen again, with the same error.
Any ideas on whats corrupting the disk?
Its a gateway machine, 1.6 Ghz Celeron, 80 gb WDD HD, Windows XP Pro. Need anything, ill be at work, thanks in advance!
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Okay... chkdsk does not fix viruses.
Those things it was fixing were bad sectors of the disk. Unless this is a re-occouring problem you don't have to worry about it.
If it ever happens again...
boot to recovery console
fixboot
fixmbr
chkdsk /r
If it happens contunually, you need to find out WHY. It is eaither that your hard drive is failing (unlikely but possible) or your powersupply is going bad (again... not likely) or you are doing something stupid like turning off your computer while saving somthing to the disk (most likely IMO).
Did this happen to occour after a power failure or after you rebooted without properly shutting down the PC by any chance?