UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME Blue screen

The infamous blue screen of death (BSOD) is what appears when you turn on your computer. Immediately you suspect a hard drive failure or data loss. This is not necessarily true. Remember, a BSOD is given by windows. So it must have at least read the hard drive to get the BSOD to show. So what do we do to try and fix this error.

You need your Windows XP CD handy

1. Boot with Windows XP CD
2. After the CD loads, press R to repair
3. In the command prompt, enter chkdsk /r
4. When complete, type in exit and reboot

If this fails, then check out this software, getdataback for about $80. I’ve used it a few times, and it works wonders. But, you’re disk has to be somewhat accessible. My windows machine was unable to access the drive. Whenever you click on it in my computer, it says it needs to be formatted. So this software was able to restore my data.

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