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Windows failed to start. File:\Boot\BCD Status: 0xc000000f
Greetings, first of all I have to declare that I am not very tech savy so please bare with me. I am using win 7 home premium x64 intel core i7 2630qm on a Asus N53SN notebook. Ive had it for about 3 or 4 years with no problems whatsoever.
This tuesday though after Ive got some updates istalled I was having trouble booting my system. I was getting this message. After couple of failed windows startup repairs It was suggested to me by the system to restore my Windows operating system to a previous state which I did and it fixed the problem for the time being.
On wednesday I left my notebook on for the night and in the morning I noticed that the update which caused those problems the day before was probably installed again but this time I was left with this screen.
The thing is that my notebook came with an already preinstalled windows 7 home premium x64 and therefore I dont have the installation disc. One of the users on reddit suggested to me this method so I gave it a shot and followed the steps on the site. At the end of the process I was left with this which looked very promising to me (here is the link so you dont have to type it manualy Ubuntu Pastebin). Unfortunately after I rebooted my system I was left stuck on this screen since. (if I press ctrl+alt+del nothing happens)
Yesteday I spent the whole day searching the internet and reddit for information on a different approach and I found this topic. The ISOs there are looking pretty legit so I used this guide to make bootable USB with the ISO I downloaded from the reddit link. So I tried to boot my machine with the USB stick and first weird thing I noticed was that this box under operating system was empty I thought that there was supposed to be something like Windows 7 or something (is this normal?).
After that I got into command prompt typed in ,,notepad,, to try to check if my files were still there but It seemed they were not since I dont think that the C:drive is supposed to be empty like this. Is this alright?
I would not like to lose my files and data and at this point I am not sure what to do next. I am not even sure how to do this repair instalation correctly. When I was at this screen I pressed ,,repair your computer,, .. was I supposed to press ,,install now,,? I repeat I was hoping to do a repair installation not a clean installation since I want to keep my files and data.
Last edited by Runatir; 15 Jul 2016 at 17:57.