Joseph;
Power off
Remove and reinsert the hard drive.
If that fails:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315403

Otherwise go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and download
their hard drive diagnostics.

Do you have a hard drive overlay such as Max Blast?
Windows XP sometimes has issues with overlay software.
You may need to perform a Clean Installation without their overlay software
which is not needed anyway.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


<joseph7367@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> OK I'm trying to fix my friends Dell laptop that had the
> UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error with the blue screen. I used the Windows
> XP Recovery cd and got to the recovery console. From there I tried to
> run chkdsk /p and it stopped at 75% because one or more volumes were
> unrecoverable. So I then decided to try and use the fixboot command,
> except this time when I went to recovery console it had the C:\WINDOWS
> , I hit enter to exit and the computer restarted normally this time.
> The only problem is I am able to get the desktop however the computer
> is running INCREDBILY slow and hasn't even finished loading everything
> in 15 minutes. Any suggestions on what I can do from here?