Hey guys I just encountered this issue on my laptop and now I can't even do anything about it. I need help. Heres how it goes: I was just playing a game the other day, one that I play all the time and have no issues at all with, then a Skype update came up. I was like ok sure. So, I click ok. Well everything was working fantastically until about possibly 30 minutes later and everything just locks up. My screen did that fade thing and says Windows Explorer isn't working. So I waited for about 10 minutes and no change. So I did the manual hold the power button turn off. It turned off, then I turned it back on. Things just went to crap from there. I have done numerous restarts on my computer, even did a system repair. Still didn't work. Finally I was forced to restore back to factory settings. So I did so and when I woke up this morning, it was about 57% (which is actually really really slow), and then an error saying something about a system image could not be found. So I again shut it down. I turned it back on and now the only screen is the black screen saying: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1.) Insert your Windows Installation disc and restart your computer. 2.) Choose your language settings, and then click "Next." 3.) Click "Repair your computer." If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance. Status: 0xc000000f Info: The boot slection failed because a required device is inaccessible. Enter=Continue Esc=Exit What do I do? I don't have a Windows Installation disc so the suggestion is not possible. Do I need to go buy a Windows 7 Installation disc? Or do I need to replace my hard drive? Please assist.

Hi, did you try to use "Repair your Computer"? make sure that you don't have any USB storage devices are attached to your systems , I think that you will need the "Windows 7 Installation disk" .Oussama Oueslati | System Engineer | vNext Consulting

Hi, did you try to use "Repair your Computer"? make sure that you don't have any USB storage devices are attached to your systems , I think that you will need the "Windows 7 Installation disk" .Oussama Oueslati | System Engineer | vNext Consulting

You might start here, http://mikemstech.blogspot.com/2012/01/troubleshooting-0xc000000f-boot-failed.html -- Mike Burr Interesting Reading on Technology and Finance

You might start here, http://mikemstech.blogspot.com/2012/01/troubleshooting-0xc000000f-boot-failed.html -- Mike Burr Interesting Reading on Technology and Finance