Blue Screen of DEATH.

My Rig:

ABiT NF7-S Mobo
AMD Barton 3000+
Radeon 9800 (non pro)
1GB DDR Kingston RAM
80GB WD HDD w/ 8mb buffer
Windows XP Professional

My Problem:

When I turn on my computer, and Windows starts booting up, two seconds after the XP logo comes on the screen, I get the blue screen that reads, "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. Technical Information: ***STOP:0x000000ED (0x86335900, 0xC0000032, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)"

What i've tried:

Restarting in Safe mode
Restarting with last known good configuration
Restarting with fail safe bios settings
Reformatting (ntfs quick) and re-installing XP pro

After re-installing XP it was running it for an hour without any apparent problems. I came home last night and powered it on, and the problem came back. I suspect that my HDD may be faulty.

Anyone have any quick fixes I could try??

Sounds like your boot.ini file or master boot record is screwed up. I would try to boot from the Windows XP CD and load the recovery console. Try the "chkdsk /p" command, then after checkdisk is finished type "fixboot" command.

"STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" Error Message When You Restart Your Computer or Upgrade to Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp


CAUSE

This behavior can occur if either of the following conditions is true:

Your computer uses an Ultra Direct Memory Access (UDMA) hard disk controller, and the following conditions are true:

You use a standard 40-wire connector cable to connect the UDMA drive to the controller instead of the required 80-wire, 40-pin cable.

The basic input/output system (BIOS) settings are configured to force the faster UDMA modes.

The file system is damaged and cannot be mounted.

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Originally posted by Onlyonerhino
Sounds like your boot.ini file or master boot record is screwed up. I would try to boot from the Windows XP CD and load the recovery console. Try the "chkdsk /p" command, then after checkdisk is finished type "fixboot" command.

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I reformatted and did a fresh install of windows, how either of those files get meefed up instantly? I will be home soon and I will give this a shot. If it still messes up, then i'm probably going to assume i'm dealing with a bad hdd.

Boot from the XP CDROM, go to the Recovery Console, and type "fixmbr". If that doesn't do it, boot off the CDROM again and do a Repair on the installation. If that gets you back into Windows, do a CHKDSK on your drive to mark any bad sectors and prevent your system from writing data to them in the future.

I booted from my XP CD Rom, and did that fix command in the recovery console, and it fixed the partition, and now my PC is booting up and running fine :)

thanks for the help guys!