Resolved unmountable boot windows XP

Hi,

I'm helping a friend with a dell dimension 8110 will not boot unmountable boot volume.
he gave me an xp home edition disk when I enter "R" for recovery the only option I get is 1)F:minint no others. Trying to save pictures and such will this option erase those files? any other help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks you

 

Anytime you do anything on a PC, you can loose stuff. That is why you should backup anything you don't want to loose.

 

Thanks for your help. My question is that there is no C: option to repair using chkdsk/r only the option of F:minint so if I run F:minint is it going to do a fresh install or can I try to repair from there?

 

Hi Shammie, have a look here:http://en.allexperts.com/q/Windows-XP-3282/2009/8/1-D-minint.htm

You may be able adapt to suit your needs. Cheers Neil.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

After running hard drive test, the hard drive is failing so I guess it needs to be replaced. I can only get the computer to run in safe mode, can I transfer XP and files to new hard drive? Hard drive is a Maxtor 6L160
Thank you

 

You can transfer files, not programs. You can clone a drive and have everything. Don't know if you can do it in SM as not everything really loads.