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UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME XP RECOVERY CONSOLE COMMANDS WINDOWS 7
UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME XP RECOVERY CONSOLE COMMANDS WINDOWS

UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME XP RECOVERY CONSOLE COMMANDS WINDOWS

If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the Windows installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console.When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press R to select the repair option.Start your computer by inserting the Windows startup disks or the Windows installation disk if your computer can start from the CD drive.The following instructions are for Windows XP, but it’s similar for Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you don’t have it, don’t worry, I’ll get to that.

For this, you need the Windows installation/startup disk.

Unfortunately, since I could not run Windows, I also could not use its command prompt, and had to find another way to run chkdsk. If the same goes for you, the solution is rather simple – you just need to run chkdsk /r for that hard drive, and it should work. However, I was able to mount the hard drive in Ubuntu and manipulate all the files, so I narrowed it down to a damaged file system.

A faulty hard drive, in terms of hardware.

The same would happen each time I tried to start Windows, so it wasn’t a temporary glitch.Īfter some reasearch (in Ubuntu, of course), I found out that there can be two reasons for this, according to Microsoft’s website: Usually, this wouldn’t be an issue, but this time, after the loading screen and before the login one, I got the Blue Screen of Death with the following error message: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. I realised that this was due to an improper shutdown a day or two ago, and ignored it. When I chose “Microsoft 7” in my boot menu (I accidentally renamed it like this, instead of “Windows 7”, and never got round to changing it), it asked me whether I want to start normally or run Startup Repair. The latter works just fine – all the problems are solved in a few minutes – but Windows? I spend days trying to repair it.Ī few days ago I decided to log into Windows, because I needed to use Lightroom.

UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME XP RECOVERY CONSOLE COMMANDS WINDOWS 7

As some of you might know, I run a dual-boot configuration with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04, with Ubuntu being my primary operating system.