Vista - blue screen - 0x000000ED (UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME)

Hello, I have Windows Vista Ultimate-32bit.

i have a dell xps m1530 laptop
while searching on there website, i found the solution for it, but cannot understand it..

http://support.ap.dell.com/support/topics/...;l=en&s=gen

0xED & 0x7B

Stop 0x000000ED (UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME)

I was getting one of the blue screen error messages everytime... When I put the cd in, everythings fine until I come across the "LOAD DRIVERS" screen. I believe there's supposed to be a driver showing saying "windows vista" or something but nothing appears... the screen's just blank with two buttons saying "Load Driver"

which driver shud we load manually....


and "Next." I tried clicking on "Load Drivers" but I don't know which drivers to load or what to click.

and when clicking NEXT ...
startup repair
system restore
windows complete pc restore
windows memory diagnostic tool
cmd

none of the above works.

only recovery disk is available and i cannot see my OS hard disk...



Can anyone please help me?

This is the section that should cause your drive to be recognized:
These drivers (the SATA drivers) need to be loaded so that Windows can access the hard drive. Once it's able to access the hard drive, then you'll be able to run the Startup Repair routines to see if it's fixable. If the above steps don't make the drive visible, then you'll have to manually load the drivers from a floppy disk (a USB one will do) - or it could be that the hard drive is dead....

So, have you run the built in Dell diagnostics to test the hard drive itself?

the SATA drivers is default to AHCI,
i did the vice-versa to it, but still its not reading the OS.

i have run the diagnostics, the test has passed.

which drivers to load manually and how to make the hard disk alive.
is it possible to recover all the files from the OS.. by connecting it to the desktop computer.

Read the "ReadMe" file at this link, then download the drivers and create a floppy disk from there: Intel® Matrix Storage Technology 32-bit Floppy Configuration Utility for Intel® Matrix Storage Manager

I haven't done this in Vista, but did a bit of research - and you may be able to extract these files to a flash drive (they're less than 1.44 mB in size) and then point the "Load Drivers" thing at the flash drive to load the drivers.

That should let you access the hard drive through Startup Repair.

Recovering the data off the drive is a whole different procedure - so let's work on this first.

im not having floppy disk on my desktop so its not opening.
is it possible for u to open in floppy disk and winzip me the file...

Sorry, but I don't have one either (mine broke about a year ago).

Try this free solution that I've used in the past: Universal Extractor | LegRoom.net

wel i have unzipped it,
f32.ima

but in load driver option it reconizes .inf files only.
should i run it from dos.

can u give me the command steps.

Section 1.1 of this link shows how to extract files from a .ima file: How to enable AHCI on Intel ICH9 under XP - WinCert.net Forums

i did as it said, but still no luck, after doing all the procedure and when laoding the driver manually, it says the driver which supports the software reuires to be restart, and after restarting..

its the same old story....

Please follow the directions in this thread to run a diagnostic on your hard drive: Bootable Hard Drive Diagnostics - Vox