MichaelG - 38 Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 Hello. Need some serious help here guys! I can't put up with my mums AMD K6 56MB machine anymore!! Right heres the problem, I suspect a virus has got into windows kernal file and damaged it badly... 2 weeks ago....I had a powercut and had to turn my machine off by the wall. Turned it on the following day went through POST fine, displayed the XP loading screen..then crashed, had a big blue screen with an error message reading "UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME...WINDOWS HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER" I have tried booting the machine in every other mode it has and it won't go anywere! I have also tried removing ram sticks and replacing them but no go OK...so I have tried just about everything and its not gonna budge. Only alternative left was to reformat the hard-drive, thought that was gonna be simple enough but not on this machine... Set the boot devices in BIOS as: 1st CDROM 2nd HDD 3rd Floppy. Restarted the PC, it didn't even search for a device on the CD just booted the Hard-drive as normal! I then just set the first boot device to 'CDROM' and disabled the other two. This time it did search the CD but displayed an error messae reading "INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" Obviosly tried it again and again and different CD'S, but no luck...I also tried booting from a floppy but displayed same error screen. Has my hard drive just gone and died on me? Im at breaking point here... Thanks for reading guys and hope one of you can help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedz 212 Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 when u reboot pc u did have windows disc in cd drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete904ni Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 Something similar happened my old K7 board donkeys ago. BOTH BIOS' screwed up (it was supposed to be dual bios in case one went wonkey) and after flashing the bios its worked the best ever since, so try that - instructions etc should be on the manufacturers website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarry164 Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 (edited) Hello. Need some serious help here guys! I can't put up with my mums AMD K6 56MB machine anymore!! Right heres the problem, I suspect a virus has got into windows kernal file and damaged it badly... 2 weeks ago....I had a powercut and had to turn my machine off by the wall. Turned it on the following day went through POST fine, displayed the XP loading screen..then crashed, had a big blue screen with an error message reading "UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME...WINDOWS HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER" I have tried booting the machine in every other mode it has and it won't go anywere! I have also tried removing ram sticks and replacing them but no go OK...so I have tried just about everything and its not gonna budge. Only alternative left was to reformat the hard-drive, thought that was gonna be simple enough but not on this machine... Set the boot devices in BIOS as: 1st CDROM 2nd HDD 3rd Floppy. Restarted the PC, it didn't even search for a device on the CD just booted the Hard-drive as normal! I then just set the first boot device to 'CDROM' and disabled the other two. This time it did search the CD but displayed an error messae reading "INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" Obviosly tried it again and again and different CD'S, but no luck...I also tried booting from a floppy but displayed same error screen. Has my hard drive just gone and died on me? Im at breaking point here... Thanks for reading guys and hope one of you can help 24850[/snapback] Had the same error come up on mine a few weeks ago even after reformatting , after a few hit and miss tests turned out the motherboard had given up good luck Edited July 29, 2005 by Jarry164 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scrapman53 Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 If you need to format and want to save anything from your HD, put it in another machine set up as a slave drive and copy what you need off it before formatting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan268 Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 When you set your boot device to CD it doesn't always just automatically boot, sometimes you have to press a key to boot from CD when it tells you. By the sound of things that HDD may not be alive for very much longer so if i was you i'd stick another one in and transfer all your important files across if it will even let you. Had an HDD go corrupt not so long ago, it's not fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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