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Problem with Windows 7 boot, error 0xc000000f
I'm running Windows 7 on my desktop PC, dualbooting with Fedora 24.
Recently, I've had a few blackouts, and my PC was running when one of said blackouts occurred. Now, starting back up, Windows gave me the choice between running recovery mode and starting normally, because of power surges, and I chose recovery mode. I can't remember the specifics of what happened, but suffice it to say it failed, and I rebooted into Windows.
Now I'm faced with a screen giving me an error, namely, 0xc000000f, an error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data, and it suggests I boot using my Windows installation disk. I fished it out, and booted to it, started system recovery options. System recovery options searched for an operating system, and said it detected a problem with my computer's startup options, and these were the details:
I selected repair and restart, and immediately I get a "Failed to save startup options." box. After closing it, I'm on the system recovery options menu with an option to restore my computer with a system image and the option to use recovery tools, with a text field below that is supposed to list operating systems, but which is empty. Since I'm an idiot and don't use Windows that much, I have no system image to restore to.
I will point out that through Fedora(which works fine), I can access my Windows partitions, and all my files are fine, it just seems to be a problem with the boot files.
I've been searching the net for solutions for the good part of the day, finally decided to come here. I'd greatly appreciate any help.