"Windows failed to start"

Hey,
I'd had some problem with my laptop the last few days, what I believed to have happened is my laptop (Dell inspiron n5110) which is windows 7, was doing a configuration, but because of my bad connection, my internet dropped. It was stuck at 15% for 3 hours so I turned it off as it was about to run out of battery. It had some problems loading and starting up but they went after a day. but 1 day later I am booting up and I get a black screen which read;
...................................
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:

1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart the computer
2. Choose your language settings and then click "next"
3. Click "repair your computer"

File:/boot/BCD
status: 0xc000014c
Info: An unexpected error has occured while attempting to read the boot configuartion data.
......................
If I click on Enter it just repeats.
I dont have the disk either
Any help would be great!
(F8 doesnt do anything)

Ollie8000 said:

Hey,
I'd had some problem with my laptop the last few days, what I believed to have happened is my laptop (Dell inspiron n5110) which is windows 7, was doing a configuration, but because of my bad connection, my internet dropped. It was stuck at 15% for 3 hours so I turned it off as it was about to run out of battery. It had some problems loading and starting up but they went after a day. but 1 day later I am booting up and I get a black screen which read;
...................................
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:

1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart the computer
2. Choose your language settings and then click "next"
3. Click "repair your computer"

File:/boot/BCD
status: 0xc000014c
Info: An unexpected error has occured while attempting to read the boot configuartion data.
......................
If I click on Enter it just repeats.
I dont have the disk either
Any help would be great!
(F8 doesnt do anything)

pc can find active partition and loads bootmgr. Bootmgr finds a corrupt bootmenu.

Boot into recovery environment System Recovery Options OPTION TWO
enter command prompt there. Then

Code:

diskpart
list  vol
exit

what are the volume letters? (don't count the dvd stuff!)
assume C and D and E
then do:

Code:

chkdsk/f  c:
chkdsk/f  d:
chkdsk/f  e:

all volumes have no error?

Code:

attrib  c:\boot\bcd
attrib  d:\boot\bcd
attrib  e:\boot\bcd

Where is that file, so on C or D (or both)? or even on E?

Ollie8000 said:

Kaktussoft said:

Ollie8000 said:

Hey,
I'd had some problem with my laptop the last few days, what I believed to have happened is my laptop (Dell inspiron n5110) which is windows 7, was doing a configuration, but because of my bad connection, my internet dropped. It was stuck at 15% for 3 hours so I turned it off as it was about to run out of battery. It had some problems loading and starting up but they went after a day. but 1 day later I am booting up and I get a black screen which read;
...................................
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:

1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart the computer
2. Choose your language settings and then click "next"
3. Click "repair your computer"

File:/boot/BCD
status: 0xc000014c
Info: An unexpected error has occured while attempting to read the boot configuartion data.
......................
If I click on Enter it just repeats.
I dont have the disk either
Any help would be great!
(F8 doesnt do anything)

pc can find active partition and loads bootmgr. Bootmgr finds a corrupt bootmenu.

Boot into recovery environment System Recovery Options OPTION TWO
enter command prompt there. Then

Code:

diskpart
list  vol
exit

what are the volume letters? (don't count the dvd stuff!)
assume C and D and E
then do:

Code:

chkdsk/f  c:
chkdsk/f  d:
chkdsk/f  e:

all volumes have no error?

Code:

attrib  c:\boot\bcd
attrib  d:\boot\bcd
attrib  e:\boot\bcd

Where is that file, so on C or D (or both)? or even on E?

I dont have the disk to do that im affraid

That is not smart of you!! Any other working win7 machine there?

Create a repair disk on that laptop System Repair Disc - Create
Can be done on cd or dvd. Boot the sick computer with that dvd