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Old 02-11-2008, 05:14 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Unmountable boot volume
I've been recently having problems with my Dell desktop. Everytime I start my computer I'm getting an unmountable boot volume error. Any help to get this fixed would be greatly appreciated.
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Old 02-11-2008, 07:34 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Re: Unmountable boot volume
For some reason I can't get the computer to boot with the XP CD
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Go into your bios and for start up sequence or boot first options, look to see if cdrom id enabled as the first boot device.
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Go into your bios and for start up sequence or boot first options, look to see if cdrom id enabled as the first boot device.
Did that and now I'm getting a floppy diskette seek failure. I tried disabling the floopy diskette boot in the boot options, but I'm still getting that error.
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Make sure CD is first and that there is no floppy disk in the drive.
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Re: Unmountable boot volume
Is there a floppy drive in this machine?

If not, enter the bios and make sure the floppy drive entry is set to NONE, and not a 1.44 drive. (See pic for example. AMI bios is shown.)
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Is there a floppy drive in this machine?

If not, enter the bios and make sure the floppy drive entry is set to NONE, and not a 1.44 drive. (See pic for example. AMI bios is shown.)
No floppy drive in this machine. The only menus I can get to during start up is the Setup menu (F2) & Boot Menu (F12). In the setup menu, I can go to diskette and either turn it to 'OFF', 'USB', 'INTERNAL' & 'READ ONLY'. I turned it off and tried rebooting and it still isn't reading the CD on start up.


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