I`m getting the dreaded blue screen and umountable boot volume message every time I boot up.  I thought this would mean a simple use of the recovery console or reinstall of windows, however when I boot using my windows xp disk it tells me that no hard disk drive is present.  This isnt true as bios picks up the hard drive and the dell diagnostic utility scans the hard drive ok.

 

I should say that I`m booting using an older windows xp disk, and not the one that came with the dell, could this be the problem?  When I scan using the diagnostic tool, this error message appears:

 

0f00:0244

msg: block 7806505 uncorrectable data error or media write protected.

 

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

Andrew