Having perplexing problems with my latest BSOD!!!
When I restarted my computer today I got a "unmountable_boot_volume Stop:0x000000ED (0x82386590, 0xC000009C, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)" message. It's an XP Dell desktop, and I've followed what I think is every reasonable protocol for fixing the problem.
I've run chkdsk, which tells me the drive (120GB) is fine, but then when I run chkdsk /r it gets to between 25 and 50% (varies from occasion to occasion, and not always increasing...) before it tells me that "the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems".
Now at one point I was able to access the directory structure (it usually tells me that "an error occured during directory enumeration") but then every file or directory I tried to open gave me an "access denied" message. It is a home computer, without any adminstrator passwords etc.
I've tried unplugging the hard drive, removing all the irrelevant peripherals, etc but that doesn't help. When I try to start windows in safe mode, it loads files up to "apg440.sys" then goes into the same BSOD I had before...
It might well be a hardware problem, but then why would chkdsk behave so erratically, and why would it be able to load system files up to a certain point in safe mode? If it is a software problem, then I can't get into safe mode to correct it, so sort of stuck in a rut.
Any help would be well appreciated!
M
When I restarted my computer today I got a "unmountable_boot_volume Stop:0x000000ED (0x82386590, 0xC000009C, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)" message. It's an XP Dell desktop, and I've followed what I think is every reasonable protocol for fixing the problem.
I've run chkdsk, which tells me the drive (120GB) is fine, but then when I run chkdsk /r it gets to between 25 and 50% (varies from occasion to occasion, and not always increasing...) before it tells me that "the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems".
Now at one point I was able to access the directory structure (it usually tells me that "an error occured during directory enumeration") but then every file or directory I tried to open gave me an "access denied" message. It is a home computer, without any adminstrator passwords etc.
I've tried unplugging the hard drive, removing all the irrelevant peripherals, etc but that doesn't help. When I try to start windows in safe mode, it loads files up to "apg440.sys" then goes into the same BSOD I had before...
It might well be a hardware problem, but then why would chkdsk behave so erratically, and why would it be able to load system files up to a certain point in safe mode? If it is a software problem, then I can't get into safe mode to correct it, so sort of stuck in a rut.
Any help would be well appreciated!
M