[Shiun]

Ok, so basically I have an XP PC that will no longer load. Before this, there was a period of time where several pop-up ads would show up every hour, but now it will not even start up. Instead, if one tries to load the system, there is a bluescreen with the problem "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME."

I looked up previous advice: http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt...ot-volume.html
But the advice seems to hinge on you being able to start with a cmd prompt. I cannot do that because the blue screen shows up at the windows logo when the system is loading. I cannot boot up in safe mode, normal mode, or previous working arrangement.

The stop code is 0x000000ED (0x8673AC08, 0xC00000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Please help if you can!!!

[noodles71]

hi ya,try here http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

[Shiun]

Thanks, but I'm not getting the message to boot from cd...
It may be caused by the CD-rom jumpers...but I'm afraid of messing the comp up even more...Any other suggestions before I try to fix it? (and likely mess it up even more?)