I'm a bit of a newbie but would appreciate your help.
This morning after leaving my HP laptop on all night, I found this screen that said status: oxc00000f info: the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
I downloaded and burned a windows install disc and ran the repair.
When I restarted, I got a different error: FILE: \window\system32\config\system, STATUS: 0xc0000e9, INFO: windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing or corrupt.
I've tried starting in safe mode and last known good, but I just get to those screens again.
I reseated my memory and my hard drive and still nothing.
The only think that I can think of that was funny yesterday was that my computer didn't like it when my wife unplugged our external drive after I used it to restore a jpeg that I deleted off the computer. She said there was some sort of error, but she could remember the exact words. Last night, though, it was running fine.
Thoughts? Help? Suggestions?
This morning after leaving my HP laptop on all night, I found this screen that said status: oxc00000f info: the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
I downloaded and burned a windows install disc and ran the repair.
When I restarted, I got a different error: FILE: \window\system32\config\system, STATUS: 0xc0000e9, INFO: windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing or corrupt.
I've tried starting in safe mode and last known good, but I just get to those screens again.
I reseated my memory and my hard drive and still nothing.
The only think that I can think of that was funny yesterday was that my computer didn't like it when my wife unplugged our external drive after I used it to restore a jpeg that I deleted off the computer. She said there was some sort of error, but she could remember the exact words. Last night, though, it was running fine.
Thoughts? Help? Suggestions?