I got a new Toshiba Satellite A205-S4777 laptop in August of last year (07), and 
it came pre-installed with Vista Home Premium. Along with it I got Toshiba's piece-of-crap 
recovery disc (I have no Vista install disc).

I am going to tell the whole story because it may be related. Anyway, I decided to 
dual-boot Ubuntu and Vista, which worked perfectly. I got bored of Ubuntu, though, 
and, in Vista, I guess I unwisely just deleted the partition (i guess there's a special 
way I should have uninstalled it or something). So I restarted my computer and it 
gave me a GRUB error because it couldn't find Ubuntu or whatever, and the boot files 
were all messed up. I spent two hours and finally came across something that told 
me to use the command prompt in the Toshiba recovery disc, and I finally got that 
settled. Well... I forgot to plug in my lap top last night, and so it went into hibernation. 
No worries, I thought, but lo and behold, I press the power button and this is what 
I see:

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 the click "Next."
3. Click "Repair your computer."

If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer 
for assistance.

File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc000000d
Info: The Windows Boot Configuration data file is missing required information.


(btw, this is the first time "re-booting" since I did the previously mentioned fix.) 
So, again, although quite annoyed, I thought, no worries. I popped in the recovery 
disc once again and pressed F12... and pressed it again... and again. And the screen 
I just typed out popped up again. So, annoyed, I restarted and I realized that there 
is none of the usual writing at the bottom of the Toshiba splash screen saying to 
press F2 or F12. So I can't boot from a CD. So having the CD and not having the CD 
makes no difference.

So now I'm stuck. I can't do anything whatsoever, that I can think of anyway. Any 
ideas?

Thanks a ton in advance. BTW, it would nice to have this fixed asap, but at latest 
I NEED my computer working again by Tuesday preferrably with all of the files intact 
(which I am assuming they still are; it's just a boot problem, not a hard-drive problem).

-David

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