whiteheater
Active Member
Bought an Acer Aspire desktop M1641 U1521A computer with a dual processor and 320 gig hard drive (partitioned to 2 160 GIG HD's) with Windows Vista Home Premium pre-installed and no installation disk about 18 months ago at Circuit City in my area (which is no longer in business). Computer has worked fine until recently.
I had downloaded the KM Player and liked how it worked to play videos and music but unfortunately when I tried to update it to the newest updated version, it didn't seem to work like it had before. Discovered the guy who developed it sold it to some corporation. Tried to install an earlier version and that's when my troubles began.
When my computer restarted from a windows update, I couldn't get it to boot up!
I got this message:
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
File: \Boot\BCD
Status 0xc000000f
An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.
Figuring someone else must have also had the same problem, I used google to see how others might have fixed their computer and discovered the Windows recovery disk mentioned and the neosmart website. I downloaded both the 32 bit and 64 bit recovery disks (not sure which one my computer was) and found out it is a 64 bit machine. However most of the recovery disk options did not work and the problem event menu said:
Problem event Startup repair v2
Problem signature 01 system disk
Problem signature 02 6.0.6001.18000.0.0.0.0
Problem signature 03 0
Problem signature 04 65537
Problem Signature 05 unknown
Problem signature 06 no hard drive
Problem signature 07 0
Problem signature 08 0
Problem signature 09 unknown
Problem signature 10 1168
OS version 6.0.6001.2.1.0. 256.1
Locale D: 1033
The only thing on the recovery disk that seems to be any help is the command prompt. When I type in BOOTREC/FIXMBR it says device is not ready
Same with the BOOTREC/FIXBOOT. BOOTREC/REBUILDBCD seems to work but the message says "total identified windows installation - 0". I get a device is not ready on some other commands too. I don't have BOOTSECT.exe.
I tried to see if anyone at bleeping computer could help but after almost a week the only reply I got was to ask if I was sure my computer was a 64 bit. And no reply to that yet.
It gets really frustrating and I need help!!! Would EasyBCD fix my boot problems? Since the command prompt on the recovery disk is the only thing I can get to help with recovering my vista boot up - what do I do after downloading EasyBCD? I'm not that knowledgeable on fixing computer problems.
I sort of need a step by step guide on how to use EasyBCD from the recovery disk command prompt.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. IF you need me to supply any more info concerning my boot up problem let me know.
William
I had downloaded the KM Player and liked how it worked to play videos and music but unfortunately when I tried to update it to the newest updated version, it didn't seem to work like it had before. Discovered the guy who developed it sold it to some corporation. Tried to install an earlier version and that's when my troubles began.
When my computer restarted from a windows update, I couldn't get it to boot up!
I got this message:
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
File: \Boot\BCD
Status 0xc000000f
An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.
Figuring someone else must have also had the same problem, I used google to see how others might have fixed their computer and discovered the Windows recovery disk mentioned and the neosmart website. I downloaded both the 32 bit and 64 bit recovery disks (not sure which one my computer was) and found out it is a 64 bit machine. However most of the recovery disk options did not work and the problem event menu said:
Problem event Startup repair v2
Problem signature 01 system disk
Problem signature 02 6.0.6001.18000.0.0.0.0
Problem signature 03 0
Problem signature 04 65537
Problem Signature 05 unknown
Problem signature 06 no hard drive
Problem signature 07 0
Problem signature 08 0
Problem signature 09 unknown
Problem signature 10 1168
OS version 6.0.6001.2.1.0. 256.1
Locale D: 1033
The only thing on the recovery disk that seems to be any help is the command prompt. When I type in BOOTREC/FIXMBR it says device is not ready
Same with the BOOTREC/FIXBOOT. BOOTREC/REBUILDBCD seems to work but the message says "total identified windows installation - 0". I get a device is not ready on some other commands too. I don't have BOOTSECT.exe.
I tried to see if anyone at bleeping computer could help but after almost a week the only reply I got was to ask if I was sure my computer was a 64 bit. And no reply to that yet.
It gets really frustrating and I need help!!! Would EasyBCD fix my boot problems? Since the command prompt on the recovery disk is the only thing I can get to help with recovering my vista boot up - what do I do after downloading EasyBCD? I'm not that knowledgeable on fixing computer problems.
I sort of need a step by step guide on how to use EasyBCD from the recovery disk command prompt.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. IF you need me to supply any more info concerning my boot up problem let me know.
William