HELP! My Windows won't Start!
 

About 2 days ago, my laptop was working fine.
All of a sudden it restarted randomly.......:fuuuuu:
Just when the black screen with my windows XP finished loading.
It jumps to this blue screen
http://i657.photobucket.com/albums/u...209_115449.jpg

This screen acts about 1 second, then it powers off cuz it sounds like it's forced. I have tried all options about F8, safe mode, last successful run, everything... Now Im looking for help...
btw I have not dropped it or have any new installs for the past year.


Windows
:alone:
y u no longer?

Blue Screen of Death! Eek.

Is your laptop still under warranty?
Does it still power off in safe mode?
Do you have boot discs?

So it does it even in Safe Mode?

If so, your options are pretty limited... since you're running XP, at this point I would probably try for a Repair Installation of Windows... but no guarantee that will fix it.

I'm getting a similar problem but right before the screen where you pick your user, it goes black and only the mouse shows up. Safe mode is possible though.

Or even get through it. I had this happen recently and I had to have the whole hard drive replaced. Fortunately it was still in warranty.

At least you have something to Google: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

I think one of the ways I fixed this issue was to run a chkdsk /r on the hard drive. Of course, you'll have to remove it, and attach it to a bootable system.

Whoops, I'm browsing without images turned on, and didn't see the screen shot.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302

Yeah, a chkdsk /r may very well fix the problem.

One option is to mount it as a slave to another computer...

Or you can boot up with an XP installation CD to do it.

^^ What he said..

had that happen to my old main drive....turned it to a slave and found out it was on its last leg of life..had to rescue all my files from it and put it on my secondary. Tossed the old HDD afterwards.

yeah hard drive is unmountable, prob got some bad sectors here n there or its starting to dieeee.

http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=stop+000000ed

Thanks guys for all of your replies. I think with the given information I will be able to fix it. And I will let you guys know how it went.
p.s. I did not know about the blue screen of death...

BSOD has been the bane of Windows users since NT first came out.

I used to have a really great screensaver that simulated a BSOD... it would throw a random bluescreen error, then pretend to reboot, then do a fake checkdisk and find all kinds of errors... put it on a server behind my buddy's desk, he'd turn around every now and then to find the machine "crashed"... so he'd reboot it and go back to work... of course, it would start up fine, but after 10 minutes the screensaver would kick in... he'd turn around and see it "crashed" again. Dude was losing his mind trying to figure out why it was crashing :D :troll:

LOL

Had the same type of problem with my old laptop. Ended up being the HD. Wasn't that hard to replace the HD. I would firt DL Hirens boot cd and run some hard disk diagnostics to make sure it's the HD.

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

Screensaver from hell: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...rnals/bb897558