Booting failure on laptop...
Calling all yrags...
Friday, April 22, 2005 by EventHorizon | Discussion: Personal Computing
Ok...
I have an old-ish Dell Inspiron 2500...my little brother was playing 'runescape' and it froze then gave a BSOD... Now, I cannot boot into windows anymore.
What will happen is this:
Turn on computer> Shows 'dell' setup screen> Gives a black screen saying 'operating system not found.'
If I leave the computer unplugged for a period of time (10 mins or so) It will show the XP bootscreen for 5-10 seconds, then Ill get a BSOD saying 'Unmountable drive volume.'
STOP: 0x000000ED (0x837D3A88, 0xC00000006, 0x00000000, 0x000000000)
Ill hit the power button, then turn it back on, and it says 'operating system not found' again. Ive tried to enter safe mode when I see the XP screen, but after I select 'Boot in safe mode' it loads for a little while, then BSODs again with the 'unmountable drive volume.'
Im worried that the HDD may have bitten the dust...Is there any way for me to get data off of the disk?
Or maybe its not broken...
Can anyone help?
I have an old-ish Dell Inspiron 2500...my little brother was playing 'runescape' and it froze then gave a BSOD... Now, I cannot boot into windows anymore.
What will happen is this:
Turn on computer> Shows 'dell' setup screen> Gives a black screen saying 'operating system not found.'
If I leave the computer unplugged for a period of time (10 mins or so) It will show the XP bootscreen for 5-10 seconds, then Ill get a BSOD saying 'Unmountable drive volume.'
STOP: 0x000000ED (0x837D3A88, 0xC00000006, 0x00000000, 0x000000000)
Ill hit the power button, then turn it back on, and it says 'operating system not found' again. Ive tried to enter safe mode when I see the XP screen, but after I select 'Boot in safe mode' it loads for a little while, then BSODs again with the 'unmountable drive volume.'
Im worried that the HDD may have bitten the dust...Is there any way for me to get data off of the disk?
Or maybe its not broken...
Can anyone help?
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Jafo
Reply #22 Sunday, May 8, 2005 6:36 AM
Reply #22 Sunday, May 8, 2005 6:36 AM
I was given a 'Bigfoot' once....had 2 gig of music videos on it....but took some 'coaxing' with a hammer to get them out.....literally...
EventHorizon
Reply #23 Sunday, May 8, 2005 10:32 PM
Oh thats clever...
Reply #23 Sunday, May 8, 2005 10:32 PM
| Drop those letters each back one space in the alphabet and you'll get a better machine.... HAL |
Oh thats clever...
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Reply #21 Sunday, May 8, 2005 6:23 AM
You may be able to get the XP start files out, but that's all. It's saying goodbye 10101010101010101010101010101010101010's as we speak.