PC won't boot

trudi | 12:38 Thu 14th Apr 2005 | Technology

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Some pop up messages on PC for a day or 2, now says "unmountable boot disc" and cannot get on in any mode, safe or otherwise. What can I do?

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If your on windows XP:

Boot from your XP CD and then press the letter R when you see the welcome screen.
Now you should get a dos command prompt.
Type "chkdsk /p" (without the quotes) and hit enter.
After that type "fixboot" (without quotes) and hit enter
Press Y at prompt
Type "exit" (without quotes) and hit enter.

Your computer should reboot into windows now.

If you don't have XP then try and get to a command prompt to run a chkdsk ("chkdsk /r"). Otherwise your hard drive might be knackered.

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