Vista - UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME IN VISTA!

After just loading a normal application I get the blue screen of death. It
just keeps rebooting, I can not get into safe mode, or repair your computer,
last known configuration.. They all either blue screen again or just hang and
do nothing. I pop in the gateway recovery cd to get to the repair
console....it boots off the cd and then gets into a black screen where you
can move the mouse cursor but thats it! Just hangs again.

I need to be able to either reinstall or use recovery console and chkdsk /r
and fixboot it to get it to work. This laptop isnt even 2 months old and
this is happen and the hard drive is clean and vista was working fine before
this. Someone please help.

Hello John,

Contact Gateway and get the machine repaired or replaced under warranty. It
sounds like hardware failure.

--
Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)

Their suggestion was to hit F8 and goto repair your computer, unfortunately I
have already tried that and it just hangs...they wanted to do a clean
install.....

I have had a similar issue where it hangs on the Blank Black Screen. but
believe me, DO NOT RE-INSTALL YET!! It just needs over 3 - 40 mins of
this hang time to get booted up. after a Black Screen with a cursor,
you will go to a Blank Blue Screen, and THEN you will SLOWLY see stuff
loading, but BE PATIENT. It IS loading, just going to take well over 30
mins, maybe even an hour! I promise...

I have the same problem with my notebook of two weeks too. I let norton
security 60 days trial version scan my notebook and took a nap, when I came
back, it will not wake-up whatever I do. Finally, it cycle to reboot and a
flash of blue again and again that I have to take out the battery. I prompts
me with the mode boot with and windows vista tries to load but could not then
back to reboot cycle again. I was able to display the blue screen that says
"UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. Is there any solution to this short of sending the
unit to the manufacturer?

John V wrote:i just got a new hard drive sent to me fedx overnight for my wife's
gateway laptop. it had the same error as yours--its a defective hard
drive. they sent a different brand of drive, so hopefully it will last
longer than the 3 months the first one lasted.

Vista was preinstalled on the replacement HDD...

Dave

Dear all, ive seen this thread and i faced the same problem on vista,
after an ungraceful shutdown, during windows update..

i tried almost everything.. vista repair disk, fixboot, fix mbr,
scanning for bad sectors, none of which fixed the problem..

but as a desperate attempt i did one last thing, i used acronis true
image which detected all my drives n files without a problem... took a
full image of the system 187Gig took approx 7-8 hours..

then i resized the partition... !!!!!!!!!!

and believe it or not it worked... try it out.. but before u fiddle
around i suggest u back up ur data.. screwing around with the partition
table could waste all ur data.. oh.. and dont forget to keep the charger
on if ur using a laptop.. lols i forgot to plug it in during half the
backup process, so had to do it all over again...

neway.. best of luck