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He's My Girl
Location: The Champagne Douche
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Unmountable_Boot_Volume
My friend's computer displays this message on a blue screen on start up. She left her 4 year old cousin alone in her room with the computer. The OS is XP Home. My friend is not a very organized person so none of the recovery disks or OS disk can be found.
What can I do about this? Would a Windows startup disk be enough to enable me to chkdsk /r ? Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated.
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lost and found
Location: Berkeley
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I would inspect the inside of the computer for physical damage. The only way to really get that kind of message to come up otherwise is to do some things a 4-year old isn't typically able to do.
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In Your Dreams
Location: City of Lights
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That does seem like a pretty incredible message for a 4y/o to generate, sure she didn't just delete some files by mistake?
![]() Nevertheless, if you have a copy of the OS cd (or somebody else does) you should be able to boot off of it and run system repair. This can result in loss of some of your settings. |
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Location: Dodging the ice pick
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Quote:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185
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Junkie
Location: San Diego
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I had this problem...basically it means your hard drive is fucked. Something shorted the drive, and there is damage to the partition. Pretty much all you can do is get a new hard drive and start fresh.
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Location: Central Coast CA
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Junkie
Location: Go A's!!!!
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seems like everyone else has answered this already but the hdd is not trashed and there is no damage to the inside of the computer, it may take a while i just had to do thsi for s friend the other day you need a copy of winxp home or pro depending on what ver you have make sure you can boot from cd insert the disk and boot from cd next you want to use the recovery console get to a C;/ prompt and type chkdsk /r /p that should fix your issue
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