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Startup Repair Loop/Booting troubles
Hello everyone, first off, I hope that I'm posting this in the correct forum.
So, last night my computer froze when I was alt-tabbing between Marvel Heroes and my desktop as I normally do, unfortunately, when it froze I could not alt-ctrl-del my way out of things to get to the task manager, so I was forced to power it down.
When I tried booting it back up, the system just hung there until I booted a second time and was directed to everyone's favorite repair tool, which ran all night long without ever stopping. After deciding that being in a loop for over 12 hours was a bit excessive, I decided to take further steps by creating a recovery disc on my old laptop.
Once I used the disc, I managed to get the startup repair to analyze things in a minute. However, this showed that my C: partition was nowhere to be found.
Needless to say, I followed various instructions to try and fix things on my own, only to discover that I have 0-byte registry hives and now if I try to reboot, it tells me the following is missing:
File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc0000034
I tried to reset things to its factory settings, but even pressing the factory reset button on my laptop only gives me the above error message. So unfortunately I have no installation disc.
So now I'm here to see if anyone can direct me in the right direction to solve this annoyance.
I did look in the BIOS to make sure that it still recognizes my HD, and it shows that it's there, so I'm hoping this isn't hardware failure.