Unmountable Boot Volume - Help!

[sushi5k]

Heya,

Getting the BSOD - Unmountable_Boot_Volume... STOP: 0x0000000ED (0x86D6SA88, 0xC0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).

Having searched on google, it says just repair windows XP...

Now, the tricky part...

So I place in the windows XP CD, press R, then it tells me it can't find the hard drive?!

Having gone into the BIOS - it doesn't recognise any onboard IDE Drives but recognises by 160gb Sata (?) drive...

Any help would be greatly recieved..

Sush.

[GX1_Man]

The important details needed are your hardware setup and what happened PRIOR to this.

[sushi5k]

Nothing new installed... Nothing wrong prior to turning computer off.

As for hardware setup.. Bit of a novice, what would you like to know? It's a Dell Dimesion.. SATA internal storage.. Haven't changed anything... ?

[GX1_Man]

Reset your NVRAM. From the F2 setup screen, turn on Caps Lock, Scroll Lock and Num Lock. Then hold down Alt and hold in e until it starts to beep. It will beep 5-6 times, Then reboot and see what happens. You have 1 or 2 IDE devices?

[sushi5k]

That commmand doesn't appear to work?..

[GX1_Man]

You have all 3 keyboard lights lit and holding down Alt + E does nothing? What model Dimension?

[sushi5k]

Correct, nothing happens... Dimension 9150....

Thanks for trying to help by the way.. Much appreciated