Unmountable_boot_volume error message - XP refuses to boot

When attempting to boot a Satellite Pro A60 I get an unmountable_boot_volume error message on a blue screen and the PC loops without booting. It will not boot in Safe Mode, nor boot from the Last Working Configuration.
It is running Windows XP Profesional SP2.
I do not want to reformat the disk and lose the data until I have tried everyhing else!
I think I need a bootable CD-ROM with XP on it, which will allow me to get to the recovery console and issue the chkdsk /r command as described at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297185). The Toshiba supplied Recovery CD does not allow me to do this.
Question 1. How can I get, download or create an XP bootable CD to allow me to do this? I am computer literate and have other PCs to do it on.
Question2. The Toshiba Recovery CD has an option called Recovery Utility, for PC Experts only. Where can I get a manual telling me how to use it?
Question 3. Does anyone have any other ideas as to how to resolve the problem?
Question 4. I can download an image for a bootable floppy from Microsoft, but the Pro A60 does not have a floppy drive. If I buy a USB attached floppy, would I be able to boot the PC from the USB atached floppy?
Question 5. I think the data on the disk is probably OK, and it is just the boot files which are corrupted and are stoping it booting. Is there some way of plugging the disk into a deskside PC and reading the data from it?
Thanks in advance.
(**** Note - I have also submitted this question to the Satellite Pro forum, but thought it would be useful here as well****)

I have fixed the problem as follows:
1 I fortunately had access to a D*ll Reinstallation CD for a D*ll desktop PC. It was for XP Home Edition SP1 (The Toshiba is a running XP Professional SP2) but I decided it would be OK to use it.
2 Place CD in CD drive, and power on holding down F12. This brings up the screen allowing you to right_arrow across to the CD drive, which tells the laptop to boot from the CD this_time_only.
3 A message appears "To boot from CD, press any key now..." If you don't press a key quickly enough, it decides you want to boot from the hard disk....
4 XP boots from the CD. AFter a while (a minute?) you get a blue screen with System Recovery Console at the top. Type r and press enter - this takes you into REPAIR mode.
5 After a while (1-2 minutes?) the C:> prompt appears. This is the first bit of good news - it can see the C Drive!
6 type chkdsk /r and press enter. This is the CHECK_DISK command, with the REPAIR option. Have patience - it took about 60 - 70 minutes to complete, during which time the % complete report showed inconsistent numbers - 30% > 50% > 60% > 62% > 50% > 60% ...etc. When it finishes it reported that it had found errors and fixed them.
7 Remove CD and boot normally. The laptoop boots and no data has been lost.
Why do vendors like Toshiba not supply a Recovery CD which allows this to be done? The only way to repair it with the Toshiba provided CD is to re-instal the XP software which formats the disk and loses all the data.
If you cannot beg, borrow or steal either a proper, full Microsoft XP Installation CD or a vendor's one (like D*ll) which allows you to do this, you can apparently make a bootable CD by following the instructions at "Bart's way to create bootable CD-Roms" at http://nu2.nu/bootcd/#whatis. I have not tried this.

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