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New Maxtor Harddrive will not function proper,y in XP Pro installation.

I'm doing a new build and each time XP Pro restarts afer copying all the files from the CD, I get a blue screen that says

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

So I disabled all onboard hardware in the BIOS and restart and I get to the XP Pro startup screen and then get the same message again...

Any ideas?

System specs:

MB Biostar VIA KM400 M7VIZ
CPU AMD 1800+ 1.53 ATHLON TBRED
RAM 256MD CRUCIAL DDRAM 32X64 PC-2700
HD 60GB MAXTOR 7200RPM DIAMONDMAX Plus9
CDRW LITE-ON 52x32x52

Thank you

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Jonybrv

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gordm

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Ok Thank you,

I didthe chkdsk /R and now it says that the volume contains one or more unrecoverable problems.

Is the disk bad?

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qfren

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philby11

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philby11

here is a bit more from the Maxtor website in Qfren's post.
Repairing a Damaged File System

Restart the computer with the XP install disk.
Press R to select the Repair Option at the "Welcome to Setup" screen.
Enter administrator password if prompted to do so.
At the next prompt press 1 and Enter .
This should bring you to the command prompt "C:\" or "C:\Windows".
Type chkdsk /r and press enter. This will scan the disk and repair any errors.
Type fixboot X: where "X" is the drive that you are installing the operating system on.
Restart the system. If Windows still errors repeat steps 1 thru 5.
Type fixmbr at the command prompt.
If all the above steps fail you may run a low-level format on the drive using PowerMax. Run the Write Disk Pack
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