Laptop - Unmountable_Boot_Volume
 

I need some assistance, has anyone had first had experience dealing with this problem?

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I've tried the auto repair tool, booting off OS cd to repair, removing hdd and plugging into my desktop, etc. Looked around online, tried command prompt stuff and still no luck.

It would hang for a very long time when trying most of these. When I plugged the hdd into my desktop as a normal data disk, it wouldn't even let me read the normal files, would only show a G: drive which was titled "HP_Recovery" or something like that.

Is my only remaining option to try and format the drive? This problem could not have come at the worst possible time, with finals around the corner and all, and it is driving me crazy.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Any important files you need from that drive? Run HD tune when installed in another computer to see if the HD is ok. HD Tune website . HD may be fried. Might have to buy another HD.

If you plugged it into another computer, and it hung like you said, chances are the HDD is corrupted.

While it hangs for a long time, are you able to copy off any files? If not, you're SOL.

Since there's still the recovery partition on it, you could try to boot into that and doing a factory restore. Chances are it won't work, in which case you can try reformatting the drive.. but yeah, not much you can do at this point.

Should probably set Dropbox to sync with your work folder in the future!