Computer Problems. HELP!

[blageo23]

The desktop at my house is being all retarded. Its the one we use for printing and stuff from out network. This is what happens
Turn the computer on. it comes to a black screen that you can select regular windows or safe mode. Either one you go to after you click on it a blue screen pops up it reads
"Problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears agian, follow these steps:
Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufaturer for any windows updates you might need.
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Diable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or diable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select advanced startup options, and then select Safe Mode.
Technical information:
*** STOP:0X000000ED (0X827E6868,0X0000006,0X00000000,0X00000000)

There was no recent install of any programs or software. We dont even really use this computer. and Safe Mode wont work either. Any help will be great

[User Name]

Yeah, well I only did about 2 minutes of searching, but from the sounds of it, it might be best to reinstall your OS. Hope you created a ghost! Reimage the beast if so!

This can be the result of several problems:
1. You are using a 40 conductor cable instead of an 80 conductor UDMA/ATA100/133 ribbon cable... and is the most common cause.
2.The file systems is damaged and cannot be mounted or booted. A repair install or a full format and reinstall may be required.
3. The BIOS settings are configured for the faster UDMA drive, and you are using a slower drive. Load the Fail-Safe settings then reactivate the most frequently used options such as USB support.
If the second parameter (0xbbbbbbbb) of the Stop error is 0xC0000032, then the file system is damaged. Usually you can repair this by restarting your computer to the Repair Console, then use chkdsk /r to repair the volume. Once you have repaired the volume, carefully inspect your hardware to determine the reason for the file system damage.

Edit: Could I ask what you were doing before this happened?

Source (http://www.geek.com/forums/topic.php?id=31354&page)

[Matt D.]

Run chkdsk /r and let it go until its done. If it won't boot after that you're stuck with attaching the drive to a working computer to recover files off of it (if you need to), format it and reinstall the OS.

I just ran into this at work. chkdsk didn't do jack shit so I was stuck with recovering the files and returning the drive to IBM under warranty. I ran a different drive repair tool on it and it ended up locking up part way through. Ran IBM's onboard drive scanning tool and it threw an error right away. If you value this computer's reliability I would throw the drive in the trash or at least not store data on it that you care about.

[95talonracer]

Your choice of internet searches caught up to you finally!

[User Name]

Windows rocks! God damnit I'm seriously debating going to ubuntu. (http://www.ubuntu.com/)
Windows is such a joke now-a-days.

[blageo23]

it was after that little storm on sat night. We went back to my house and sleepydsm said there was something wrong with it. I just told him to go use the laptop right next to it. Then the next day my bro inlaw restarted it and that's what came up. Like I said we bearly use it. Could the storm have caused it? My sister said the lights went out for a couple seconds.

[95talonracer]

The storm could of sent a surge to it and damaged something. Do you have a surge protector inbetween the computer and the outlet where it plugs into the wall??

[Matt D.]

A power hiccup could have caused it. Hard drives don't like having power switched on and off, especially when writing data. Most likely it was just that drive's time to go, and this is its way of telling you.

[blageo23]

Its connected to a surge protector.

[scheides]

That doesn't mean shit, surge protectors don't protect against brown-outs or power on/offs. Like mattD said, if the power goes on/off while the hard drive is doing something, it is likely to corrupt itself.

Reinstall is 95% likely to be the fix.