Unmountable Boot Volume

[TerryW]

Hi, last night my daughter's Dell desktop XP got the BSOD with the Unmountable Boot Volume message STOP: 0x000000ED.  I searched online for hours for fixes, everything I found that I tried didn't work.  I can't open in safemode or anything else, it always goes back to the BSOD.  Can't afford a new computer right now, can't even afford to take it to a tech.  Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

[TerryW]

Actually I found this in the forum, looks like basically the same problem I'm having.  So I'll try this, topic -

Windows repair won't run from USB stick or CD

[Julian]

okay do you have another computer to where you can take out that laptop hdd and plug it into another computer and open cmd and run a

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chkdsk /f on it? I'm curious as to what that reports back.