STOP: 0X000000ED (0X86D5C030, 0XC0000006, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)

My niece has a netbook that it turns off in the middle of the Windows form with the flag and the blue line "forced" down while he was starting the system.  Now, he's not going beyond the start menu.  I tried every method of starting, including disable restart auto and other suggestions.  I posted the error code when we finally got a blue screen with an error code itself.  It doesn't have a hard drive to boot from the CD.  I don't have an external CD/DVD drive to boot to leave or perform a recovery.  It is not any kind of recovery.

Any suggestions?  It is running XP.  Only screens I could get are the BIOS Boot Menu screens and the blue screen with the error. During some of these different methods of starting, he works through things page as it is starting, but then freezes.

Thanks for any help!

Safe mode will not help you.

You can usually fix this by running chkdsk/r of the XP Recovery Console, but to do this, you will have to start on something.

See here:

http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_xp-system/unmountable-boot-volume-stop-0x0000000ed/570c7f90-5869-E011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5

If you use a recovery partition, you will eliminate all you have.

Before the recovery operation (if it works at all), you could save all your personal data, but this will require that you copy off to an external device somewhere (but you cannot start, right?).

You can buy an external CD/DVD drive for about $40 or less (this can be a good investment).

You can take the machine to a shop where they attach an external CD/DVD drive and run chkdsk/r for you.  When you leave, everything will probably be mysterious excuses and you do not have an external CD/DVD drive.

You can remove the drive and it slave in another machine and chkdsk /r on (too complicated).

You could make a bootable USB drive with XP on it - Recovery Console if your system supports (too complicated).

If you have no real XP bootable installation CD, you can create a bootable XP Recovery CD of Console and be on your way... but you have to start on something.

Bite the bullet.  Stop messing around.  Shop for an external CD/DVD drive, your problem and be on your way.  Then you will have an external CD/DVD drive to use on any machine you want in the future.

Then, train your staff on the ramifications of eating off the system when it is not the right time to power off.

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