mine is doing domething similar... I get the whole safe mode, safe w/ prompt, etc screen. I try to start and the unmountable boot screen flashes very quickly then it restarts, welcome to my hell.
SO I tried getting a boot disk online but the only version I could find wanted me to make a floppy disc. Problem is, my laptop(which is still working) doesn't have a floppy drive. Does anyone know what I can do to get around this? I've read the above statements, I undrstand. I just want to try to get my desktop up and running... grrr

sryy i have nothing for u. im still tinking about it though

Hello there I have a similar problem. I have an IBM thinkpad laptop and one day I did an microsoft update and everything was working fine.
The next day when i switched on the laptop, I got the dreaded BLUE screen with UNMOUNTABLE-BOOT_VOLUME with error code ***Stop: 0X000000ED (0x82F64900,0xc0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I've read what was mentioned above with the other chappy, but I can find away if loading the XP disc cuase i do not get the option. I tried F12 where it gave me the option to load a disc, but nothing happens.

Please HELP or Advise.

Bhaj

I have had the blue screen all day I have tried the Windows Xp Cd and it does not load I can't even use a single F key nothing. I would just throw it in the Trash. It's only 9 months old But my 16 year old son recently passed away so I really need to get the pictures and files from it then I could care less if it worked is this possible to retrive the info i need from it. Some person I called quated me 300.00 I think they are crazy

Dear cblanck,

I'm sorry to hear that your son passed away at such a tender age. My take is, your laptop might be faulty but the hard disk may still be fine. You may attempt to remove its hard disk and connect it to another computer or laptop. Then attempt to retrieve the files from there. Yes, this is somewhat a technical task but if you ask someone you know who is IT-trained or had built PCs before, he/she will be able to assist you more than I can over this forum. I wish you the best.

I have the same problem, I think. I had to videotape it with a digital camera, then go through it frame by frame with quick time, but the error message (blue screen) said UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME claiming it had shut down to protect my computer from damage, and telling me to uninstall any new hardware or software. My computer is a partitioned Intel iMac with XP installed on one side and OSX on the other.

I just stumbled upon this same error message on a client's machine, did some googling and now I'm here. I found some Microsoft kb-site, which stated this isn't even a fault, just a random error...

I just ran chkdsk /r from the Recovery Console on the installation disk and it did the job. Then just for sure I'll run a hard disk diagnostic program, available free from most manufacturer's websites. I use the Ultimate Boot CD which contains all of them, available as ISO for burning a CD.

AFAIK torrenting a Windows installation media is not illegitimate as long as it doesn't contain any installation codes. Same goes for copying an installation cd. Actually MS even recommends making a copy of the original for frequent use, like multiple reinstalls or recovery console use.

And cblanck, sorry for your loss. This tip comes a bit late, but maybe someone can find help from this: As previously told, getting photos and other important files from a non-working computer can quite easily be done by installing the hard disk to a working machine. On desktops it's easiest, just connect the other disk with a SATA or IDE cable and plug in a power cord from the psu. A USB to SATA/IDE cable is even easier and works with all disks making them work as an external hard disk. Also there are montage kits for laptop size disks to be fitted into a desktop. All are quite inexpensive. And in any case correct jumpering is important for it to work.

If the hard disk in question is unreadable - because of password protected user profile or even faulty - using a bootable Live Linux CD like Ubuntu or Knoppix can help. They can bypass all Windows passwords by default and even contain a cd burner, although for burning you have to have two cd-players on the computer.

Hope this helps.