Quake3World

Where might I find a cd image that allows me to run chckdsk and such? I need to fix an "Unmountable boot volume" error on a Vista machine.
I tried bootdisk.com, but apparently you need to pay.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

i believe ntfs4dos which is part of the cd, has chkdsk

":Unmountable Boot Volume" is usually the product of either hardware failure or windows fuckery. chkdsk is unlikely to help you, but I guess it's worth a shot.

have you tried to boot the vista disk and go into recovery mode and run chkdsk or fixmbr?

I don't have any installation discs, xp or vista. I downloaded the ubcd and ran ntfs4dos's chkdsk but it didn't seem to do anything (I couldn't really tell, the screens were in german). It had a boot.ini editor (which seemed as though it was specifically for this problem), but it said it was unable to open it. I just want to be able to go through the steps of troubleshooting (at this stage from what I've read it would be a corrupted boot.ini, and i'm supposed to run chkdsk /r from the windows recovery console)... should I just go on and download the vista install cd?

yea, your best bet would be to get the install disk.

You do have the Key written someware, right?

I don't own the computer, I'm fixing it for a friend that lives in another state, he mailed it to me.

Would an xp disc work?

it may work, to be honest i dont know.

i dont recall Vista changing anything about the NTFS Structure, so you should be able to repair it through the XP repair console.

okay, i obtained an xp pro sp2 disc and ran the recovery console chkdsk and it boots up to the login screen, so i'm pretty happy

thanks for the replies

good to hear man,