[ve0804]

Hi, new here- I have a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows Vista installed. A couple days ago i got the blue screen error unmountable boot volume. I tried loading my vista disk since it wouldn't load windows and the startup repair, system restore, complete pc restore, and windows memory diagnostic tool are not working because it says hard disk is not found. My last hope i think is the command prompt. I tried chkdsk because I've read on different forums to type that in and I'm not sure what to do with what comes up. Although I'm not sure that's working either as the last sentence is: "failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50". I don't know what that means but there is a ton of info that came up before that I'm just not sure how much you would need to know.
If anyone knows what to do I thank you so much you have no idea- i really need my computer working again!

[Hybr!d]

Does the hard drive show in the BIOS?

[ve0804]

I'm not sure, when I get to the BIOS screen there is a line under the main tab that says hard disk drive: 160GB. Is that what you're talking about?

[Hybr!d]

BIOS tend to be different from make to make. Basically there should be a drive section and in that your various drives listed, CD, HDD etc. You should see their respective model numbers and be able to select them and edit their properties. If the drive is not displayed and/or you cannot edit it even though the options are there the drive is likely dead.

[ve0804]

If i order the recovery disks, will that fix it or do i need to buy a new hard drive?

[Hybr!d]

If it's is dead, confirmed doing what I said above, then yes, you will need a new one and a Vista CD to reinstall your OS.

[philthomas]

Try going back to the Command Prompt and type in :

chkdsk c: /f /v

and see if this helps. I hope I'm wrong, but normally when you get the "Failed to transfer .... status 50" message, it indicates the HDD cannot be written to and is faulty.