I may have made a boo boo. I bought a used computer today without an HDD or an OS. I had an old XP computer that had two 1TB drives. I installed a legitimate upgrade of Windows 7 on the C: drive over XP and put it in the new computer. Now, it won't start, and startup repair does nothing. I don't have the XP disk since I bought the computer 7 years ago, and it disappeared since.
View 13 RepliesThis happened to me a few weeks ago and I haven't been able to resolve it since, so I'm turning here for assistance. One fine evening, I come home and notice that my computer is giving me an error message:
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the problem.
I am then told to insert my installation CD, reboot, and follow some steps. There is one problem: I do not have an installation CD. I upgraded my erratic copy of Windows Vista to 7 (Premium 32bit I believe) last year as part of the $30 upgrade for students program, and did so online. I tried using friends' installation disks of various editions to no avail, and when I boot directly from the disks it either gives me the option to reinstall or gives me the same error message (0xc0000001, BootBCD). I tried to track down my purchase information, but the email address I used to make the purchase no longer exists and my online banking service doesn't keep records past 6 months (I made the upgrade roughly a year ago). My question is, what can I do to fix this? Do I have to reinstall and lose all my data, is there a problem with the computer itself (this is not the first OS to be bucked off, it rejected Vista last May), or can I get what I need to run a system repair somehow?
Edit: Forgot to mention, the only software change I have made in the last few weeks is uninstalling Firefox and installing Chrome, and I don't think that would be the issue.
Slow Start Up on Newly Installed Windows 7 X64 Sp1 - Laptop Asus U30JC.
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[code]Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Version 6.1 (Build 7600)
5 29 2011 02:49:09.125
Loaded driver SystemRootsystem32
toskrnl.exe
Loaded driver SystemRootsystem32hal.dll
Loaded driver SystemRootsystem32kdcom.dll
Loaded driver SystemRootsystem32mcupdate_AuthenticAMD.dll
Loaded driver SystemRootsystem32PSHED.dll
Loaded driver SystemRootsystem32CLFS.SYS
[Log] .....
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Problem event name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
02: " "
03: unknown
04: 21201151
05: Autofailover
06: 02
07: NoRootCause
OS version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Local Id: 1033
Where do I start?
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OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: AMD Turion(tm) II Dual-Core Mobile M500, AMD64 Family 16 Model 6 Stepping 2
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 3836 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200, 320 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 460935 MB, Free - 398933 MB; D: Total - 15699 MB, Free - 2579 MB;
Motherboard: Quanta, 3638
Antivirus: Microsoft Security Essentials, Updated and Enabled
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