So, I picked up a nice compaq (yeah, I realize that's an oxymoron) tower, monitor and printer at a yard sale for $20, which was an incredibly sweet deal; 80GB hd, 512DDR memory, 2.8ghz processor running xp pro.
I brought it home, plugged it in, fired it up. At first the black screen came up saying windows had been improperly shut down, what did I want to do, I chose start windows normally, then--bam, blue screen saying umounted_boot_volume.
That didn't phase me; I just swapped my working hard drive from my hp desktop--which was working--and put it in as the master. I got another blue screen, which just said "a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage because it's retarded.
***STOP:0x0000007b (0xf993f640,0xc0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)"
...help... I don't have an xp setup disk, as even my other computer was bought second hand, and I'm really not into pirating something off limewire or anything.

(I ran the repair function on it, and the results came up saying nothing was really wrong. So both the stock hard drive with a working OS on it and my other [both of them with XP pro] won't boot.)


If you don't like my driving, stay off the sidewalk. *scoffs* Little kids...

You can find a copy of XP for like $80. Then you could reformat. That would be the easiest thing to do. Or try googling "unmounted_boot_volume" and see what you can find. Other than that I don't really know.

I think I'll do that; just buy a license from the Uni store (student di$count comes in handy) on Monday... but I have no patience, ergo this is a bad solution.


If you don't like my driving, stay off the sidewalk. *scoffs* Little kids...

You could always go Linux.

Actually, when I tried the ubuntu setup disk, the main install, check disk for errors, memory check etc. menu loaded, but whenever I tried to start the install, it would just restart the system, over and over again.
Compaqs are notorious for their difficult crappy proprietary BIOSes and hardware...I think I'll just have to stick with Windows.


If you don't like my driving, stay off the sidewalk. *scoffs* Little kids...

If u Have a Win98 floppy boot disk, use this , and at prompt type scandisk/mount or scandisk/fix or type help for a list of tools to use, hope this helps

Try and find win98 bootable disk rather wasting your time on nothing.Insert it inside and when the prompt is out try running the fdisk to delete every thing on your hard drive, then format it with that 98. After the windows is okay then insert winXP to install afresh