T60: "Unmountable Boot Volume" when I try to boot up.

Hi !
Last night, when I've been working on my T60 all day, i wanted to restart my computer before I was burning a CD.
And now my computer can't boot, there comes a Blue screen just before my windows vista-login, and right after it has loaded the first bit of windows.
The blue screen says "Unmountable Boot Volume".
Then I've tried to run the Lenovo Recovery Tool (Recue and Recovery 4), but it's not able to find my windows installation or harddrive.
I've tried to boot from a Ubuntu Live CD, and there it is possible to find my harddrive and all of my files.
Does anyone know a way, to fix this problem, so that I can come back to my Windows.
Best Regards
Martin
Message Edited by zmaller on 06-13-2009 05:17 AM

Make sure that the Time Capsule is not backing up at the time.
On you Mac....open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utiltiies > AirPort Utility
Click the Disk icon at the top of the window
Click the Disks tab just below the Advanced icon
Click Disconnect All Users
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