Help!!! Computer problem.

[TruClone]

I cannot get my computer to get past a screen which says, UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. Anyone know how I can get my computer restored? I cannot find my original CD's that came with computer. It is a Dell XPS M140, about 8 years old.

 

[theantiAIRBHG]

I think your hard drive took a vacation.

 

[1100011CS]

Make sure you don't have a CD/DVD in the drive and/or a USB stick in.

 

[mkleve44]

Did you try restarting it? That's what our IT people tell us.

 

[cowgirl836]

do what they said and if you get it again, you'll have to get it into safe mode to be able to mess around with it further.

 

[Wesley]

Avoid Best Buy at all costs.

 

[3TrueFans]

 

[3TrueFans]

Oh also you're ****ed, but an 8 year old laptop is basically a door stop anyways, so it can just be repurposed.

 

[roundball]

Try rotating it 90 degrees to the right.

 

[peteypie]

Hold F8 when you start it up. Should go to an options screen, where you can do a factory restore or open in safe mode unless your hardrive is gone.

 

[cyfanatic]

Oh also you're ****ed, but an 8 year old laptop is basically a door stop anyways, so it can just be repurposed.

Install a Linux system on it...but that won't help with the immediate situation.

 

[RubyClone]

I think your hard drive took a vacation.

This. Looks like it's not finding anything to boot the operating system from.

[video=youtube;l2DUCzsIBG8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2DUCzsIBG8[/video]

 

[TruClone]

When I turn off and restart it goes to a screen which offers some options like going into safe mode. When I do this it reverts back to the original blue screen. Nothing helps, even pressing F8, still goes back to the original blue screen. Looks like a trip to a PC doctor is needed.

 

[IcSyU]

ooks like a trip to a PC doctor is needed.

For an 8 year old laptop? Not even worth it. It's going to cost you $60 for a hard drive and if you want Windows an 8 year old computer probably isn't going to have the horses to run Windows 7 or 8. If you're ok with another OS it might be worth it but at 8 years there's a high probability something else is going to break.

 

[TruClone]

Problem is lots of photos that need retrieved.

 

[CyArob]

I didn't even know 8 year old computers existed.

 

[bos]

Problem is lots of photos that need retrieved.

Your best bet would be to have someone connect the hard drive to a working computer and see if they can pull the folders off.

 

[Cyclone44]

Sounds like my computer when the hard drive went out. If the hard drive is bad you probably have lost all your pictures. You need to save them off to a usb drive or cd so you would have a back up of them. You can buy a new low end laptop at walmart for around $300. It would probably have more power than a 8 year old computer. Most would have a I3 processor which would be better than what you had, unless it was very high end at the time you bought it.

 

[Cyclonesince78]

Problem is lots of photos that need retrieved.

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[EnhancedFujita]

Problem is lots of photos that need retrieved.

My advice, if the pictures are really important is to pay the least amount that you can to get the pictures off. Then buy a new computer, an external HDD and sign up for some cloud storage. In your new system, back up all of your files to the external HDD and cloud once a month. Then when the new computer craps out in 5 years you'll still have everything. I use a back up to the cloud as an emergency in case my PC and external HDD die.