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[How To] Recover UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error

Have you ever stumble into a epic BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH on your daily Windows XP. Now, WinXP BSOD comes with ‘friendly message’ that indicates what type of error the pc is having.

For UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME, to recover your WinXP pc, just follow the steps.

1. Start your PC.
2. Enter BIOS, and change the boot options to CDROM/DVD
3. Insert your WinXP CD Installer.
4. Press Enter when ‘Press any key to boot cd..’
5. When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press R to select the repair option.
6. It will direct you to a command prompt.
7. Type chkdsk /r
8. After the check disk is finished, type exit

Now, it will boot normally to you WinXP.

VirtualBox Ubuntu Screen Problem

VirtualBox is one of the rising product that gain much popularity in community. The size is much smaller than VMWare and it is easy to setup. I get my hand on VirtualBox and install Ubuntu 7.10 as guest OS.

All went fine, no hiccups and smooth. My max screen size is 1024x768, but after I install Ubuntu 7.10 on VirtualBox, the screen size max is only 800x600. Went to the forum and found this solutions.

At the terminal type this

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg 

Select Vboxvideo and select your desire resolution. and restarting X by pressing 

Ctrl + Alt + Backspace

Now, you have the desired resolutions working. But you will notice that your mouse now invisible. No problem. Head to your xorg.conf , change the mouse section to vboxmouse, and restart your X. 

Hope that helps for newbie like me that want to explore the world of free and open source, without the hassle of dual boot.