My Toshiba M35 is giving me the BSOD when I
boot ..UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME ... I can't boot from an XP CD I
guess because Toshiba only supplies a 'Recovery CD' which will
reformat my HD ..... is there a way that I can take the HD out of my
laptop and get an external HD enclosure that will let me plug it into
another laptop as a secondary drive, perhaps as a USB drive, so that I
could run chkdsk/f against it to try to repair any file system damage
that might be there and maybe recover some files before I am forced to
reformat it.

I really appreciate any feedback anyone can give. I can't believe that
my only option is to reformat and lose all my files ( I know, I know,
do backups, but its a tad late for that!)

freemanwin@exti.com wrote:
> My Toshiba M35 is giving me the BSOD when I
> boot ..UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME ... I can't boot from an XP CD I
> guess because Toshiba only supplies a 'Recovery CD' which will
> reformat my HD ..... is there a way that I can take the HD out of my
> laptop and get an external HD enclosure that will let me plug it into
> another laptop as a secondary drive, perhaps as a USB drive, so that I
> could run chkdsk/f against it to try to repair any file system damage
> that might be there and maybe recover some files before I am forced to
> reformat it.
>
> I really appreciate any feedback anyone can give. I can't believe that
> my only option is to reformat and lose all my files ( I know, I know,
> do backups, but its a tad late for that!)
>

I do this frequently with notebook drives. www.newegg.com for examples
of drive enclosures of all kinds.

Q

On 15 Feb 2007 17:02:33 -0800, freemanwin@exti.com wrote:

>My Toshiba M35 is giving me the BSOD when I
>boot ..UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME ... I can't boot from an XP CD I
>guess because Toshiba only supplies a 'Recovery CD' which will


This is pure silliness. If you can't boot from an xp cd, your laptop
has bigger problems. You can buy an external case to throw the drive
in and get the data off of, but if the xp cd won't boot something
bigger is wrong.

Chris Hill wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2007 17:02:33 -0800, freemanwin@exti.com wrote:
>
>> My Toshiba M35 is giving me the BSOD when I
>> boot ..UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME ... I can't boot from an XP CD I
>> guess because Toshiba only supplies a 'Recovery CD' which will
>
>
> This is pure silliness. If you can't boot from an xp cd, your laptop
> has bigger problems. You can buy an external case to throw the drive
> in and get the data off of, but if the xp cd won't boot something
> bigger is wrong.

The issue, Chris, is that far too many notebooks and desktops (and their
owners) have no access to an XP cd, recovery console, what-have-you.
The only choice is to use other tools to recover, or use the system
recovery CD or partition to do a format and reinstall to out-of-the-box
disk content.

Q

First, you could boot from an XP CD, but you'd have to supply the CD
yourself.

Yes, you can remove the drive and connect it to another computer using
either a USB adapter or the native (IDE or SATA) drive interface of the
other computer and the drive in question.

What I recommend is this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=330089390793

[These are available in unlimited quantity ... just search the seller's
other auctions. He sells them at two different prices (same item), be
sure to get an auction with the lower price ($4.99). Bad news: The
seller is reliable, the product is good, the price is dirt cheap
($4.99), the shipping is very reasonable ($8.99). But it comes by
parcel post from Hong Kong. Delivery takes 3 weeks. :-( ]


freemanwin@exti.com wrote:
> My Toshiba M35 is giving me the BSOD when I
> boot ..UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME ... I can't boot from an XP CD I
> guess because Toshiba only supplies a 'Recovery CD' which will
> reformat my HD ..... is there a way that I can take the HD out of my
> laptop and get an external HD enclosure that will let me plug it into
> another laptop as a secondary drive, perhaps as a USB drive, so that I
> could run chkdsk/f against it to try to repair any file system damage
> that might be there and maybe recover some files before I am forced to
> reformat it.
>
> I really appreciate any feedback anyone can give. I can't believe that
> my only option is to reformat and lose all my files ( I know, I know,
> do backups, but its a tad late for that!)
>