My First BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) ...

[user1397]

Yep, today I officially got my first BSOD on my windows desktop, and I've been using it since 2004.

The main error says "Unmountable boot volume" but I can't think of anything I've added (software or hardware) that might have caused this, unless my hard drive completely doesn't work anymore.

The funny thing about it is the post I made on this thread yesterday: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...53#post2192053, post #345

[Rhapsody]

I've seen loads of BSODs on my old PC with Windows XP. The only time I managed to get a kernel panic out of Linux though was when attempting to boot the PC after it'd been dropped about three feet (it seems the motherboard bought the farm, along with one or both hard drives).

[SunnyRabbiera]

Its funny though, I only encountered the blue screen of death on XP only twice, once on a computer I owned and one on someone elses computer.
But on my aunts ME computer, BSOD was all over the place.

[Polygon]

all the stuff on your hard drive is most likely fine, its just that windows in its infinite wisdom most likely screwed something up and is unable to mount it

use your favorite flavor of linux cd, (the ubuntu linux cd can read from ntfs drives by default) so if you need to get important stuff off of their, simply pop it in, mount your windows drive and copy it somewhere else (another drive, not your desktop as thats just all RAM =P )

[ice60]

you can have a look at the minidump if you have it configured to make one, or look at the Event Viewer logs too to see what might have caused the BSOD.

edit. if you can't bootup you can try using the recovery console, or knoppix to have a look at the boot.ini, if that's become corrupt it will not know which drive to boot from.

[user1397]

do you mean the console from the recovery cd's?

i successfully mounted it using a feisty live cd, so i dont have to worry about important files (they're all still there)

here's my boot.ini file:

[boot loader] 
timeout=3 
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS 
[operating systems] 
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn 
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

[IYY]

I have a machine that gives this error every time you try to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows on the same disk. The only way to fix it (as far as I know) is to erase Ubuntu and use XP's recovery console to 'fix' (convert to Windows's boot manager) the mbr, using the fixmbr command. The interesting thing is that even if I fix the mbr but leave Ubuntu there, Windows gives this nasty error and BSOD.

[Nikron]

I've never gotten a BSOD... But then again I've only used Windows XP and a little ME... Now I don't use Windows at all, so I might of missed the whole experience..

[user1397]

the thing is, I don't even have ubuntu installed on this computer

its just my ntfs partition (windows xp) and then my recovery partition (fat32)

[riven0]

You didn't happen to pull out a usb drive while shutting down the comp, did you? That'll give a BSOD.

And I still can't believe there are people have been using XP for years and haven't gotten the BSOD. It was a common occurence with me, (weekly, at least). It's also one of the reasons why I switched to Linux.