Greetings Friends,
My XP Home system will not start. I will try to give you as much info as I can.
The system was running and idle, with no applications running, and I heard it rebooting. I turned on the monitor and saw the looping reboot. It would go to the Windows XP splash screen for a few seconds and then automatically reboot, and repeat.
I started reading these forums in to try to fix it. I was able to f8 to get the expanded list of boot options, and clicked no automatic reboot so I would get the bsod, and error messages.
The error message is STOP 0x000000ED (0x869619E0,0xc0000006,0x00000000,0x00000000 UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
So I tried to boot via CD, changing the bios to do that first, and the OEM CD would not do anything. When it said to Boot from CD, I click Enter and the same thing happens. It does not go to Setup. So I figured that the OEM CD would not work, and I made several boot CDs. I tried Paragon XP Rescue Kit CD, XP Recovery Console CD, and the RK.iso image CD. All of those do the same thing also, when I click Enter on Boot from CD it will not go to Setup, just the Windows screen that shows boot options.
I want to try to recover my data, but don't know how to "slave" the drive. I'm not very adept at hardware configuration/types of drive connections.
I've read many forum threads, help sites, etc. and am asking for help here as a last resort before doing something drastic like taking it in for repair. Please help with any ideas that you have.
Thank you!