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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In that you can't start windows at all the first thing you need to do is to find an original windows disk. Ask friends, work partners, even you local computer shop that might know you personally. This would normally be something that I would NEVER suggest, but you have to have a WINDOWS disk. Then you will need to follow through with the following links one at a time till you are back in business. Do the BCD fix first. Also once you are in the M.S. knowledge base look around and get used to finding stuff to help yourself. There is tons of great stuff just waiting to be found. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927391/en-us http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

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Hey thanks for the help... I however don't have a Vista CD (as I got the Toshiba 
Recovery Disc from the manufacturer, which isn't the same). And none of my friends 
like Microsoft so they all use Linux and Mac.

I do have an old XP installation CD, but i tried it and it didn't work (i'm guessing 
that the Vista CD would make it bypass the normal boot process automatically?... 
so why wouldn't the XP CD do the same?)

I've heard to boot cds for Vista. Would that do the same? I want to know before I 
try it so that I don't waste my time trying things that don't work.

Thanks again for the help! :)







On Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 6:53 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:

>

>In that you can't start windows at all the first thing you need to do is to find 

>an original windows disk. Ask friends, work partners, even you local computer shop 

>that might know you personally. This would normally be something that I would NEVER 

>suggest, but you have to have a WINDOWS disk. Then you will need to follow through 

>with the following links one at a time till you are back in business. Do the BCD 

>fix first. Also once you are in the M.S. knowledge base  look around and get used 

>to finding stuff to help yourself. There is tons of great stuff just waiting to 
be 

>found.

>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927391/en-us

>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392 

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You are going to have to get an official Vista Install cd of some sort. Start talking to your friends and neighbors about that. I usually don't recommend passing install disks around, but is your manufacturer didn't give you one, your don't have a lot of choices.


On Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 11:34 pm, David King wrote:
>Hey thanks for the help... I however don't have a Vista CD (as I got the Toshiba
>Recovery Disc from the manufacturer, which isn't the same). And none of my friends
>like Microsoft so they all use Linux and Mac.
>
>I do have an old XP installation CD, but i tried it and it didn't work (I'm guessing
>that the Vista CD would make it bypass the normal boot process automatically?...
>so why wouldn't the XP CD do the same?)
>
>I've heard to boot Cd's for Vista. Would that do the same? I want to know before I
>try it so that I don't waste my time trying things that don't work.
>
>Thanks again for the help! :)
>
>
>

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Ok, I found someone who has one but it will be a little while before she can get 
it to me... I should have it by tonight (where I am). I'll respond again to let you 
know the end result after I get the CD.







On Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 8:38 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:

>

>You are going to have to get an official Vista Install cd of some sort. Start talking 

>to your friends and neighbors about that. I usually don't recommend passing install 

>disks around, but is your manufacturer didn't give you one, your don't have a lot 

>of choices.

>

> 

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Ok so I got the CD. It didn't do anything. (by the way, I am using Vista Home Premium, 
and the CD was Vista Ultimate. But from your post, I was under the impression that 
either would work...






On Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 8:38 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:

>

>You are going to have to get an official Vista Install cd of some sort. Start talking 

>to your friends and neighbors about that. I usually don't recommend passing install 

>disks around, but is your manufacturer didn't give you one, your don't have a lot 

>of choices.

>

> 

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How far did you get? all versions have all of the info on them. Did you get to the DOS window? What was the response when you typed in the info listed in the M.S. info? The first one should have taken a long time and given you something for an answer, even if you didn't understand it.

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I'm saying I didn't get past the same error screen I showed before. I get the Toshiba 
Splash screen with no option to boot from a disc or go to setup or anything (pressing 
the F2 and F8 and F12 and ESC and a string of others doesn't do anything), and then 
it goes to the error screen. Having the disc in made no difference.

I went on toshiba's website and found a service center near by so I'm going to take 
it in and see what they can do.

Thanks for all the help! I'll let you know what the problem is in the end (if I can 
understand what they're saying; I'm in Korea atm).
-David






On Friday, February 29, 2008 at 7:29 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:

>

>How far did you get? all versions have all of the info on them. Did you get to the 

>DOS window? What was the response when you typed in the info listed in the M.S. 
info? 

>The first one should have taken a long time and given you something for an answer, 

>even if you didn't understand it. 

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OK I didn't understand. You have to go into your BIOS setup and change your boot settings to have BOOT from CD as your first choice and then when you are booting it should ask (prob. at bottom of screen) to boot for CD or DVD, push any key. To get to your BIOS, at the very start you press (probably the Delete) your key or key sequence as stated (hopefully) in your instruction manual for your comp. If it's not the Delete key and you don't have a booklet of some type look at the manufacturers web site. I couldn't tell you. Once you have it booting from the DVD then you can follow the instructions I listed at the first.

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However, he said he was not seeing these messages. I had an older Toshiba laptop, 
and also could not boot with the CD. I was told to press and hold the recessed reset 
button, and that would set the bios back to the default. It did not do anything to 
my partitions, therefore, I was able to do a repair on my WinXP install. I am not 
sure if it would be the same for you, but it might be worth the risk.







On Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 11:36 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:

>OK I didn't understand. You have to go into your BIOS setup and change your boot 

>settings to have BOOT from CD as your first choice and then when you are booting 

>it should ask (prob. at bottom of screen) to boot for CD or DVD, push any key.  
To 

>get to your BIOS, at the very start you press (probably the Delete) your key or 
key 

>sequence as stated (hopefully) in your instruction manual for your comp. If it's 

>not the Delete key and you don't have a booklet of some type look at the manufacturers 

>web site. I couldn't tell you. Once you have it booting from the DVD then you can 

>follow the instructions I listed at the first. 

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Right i'm not seeing that message.

Anyway, thanks for all your help both of you, but I took my laptop in to the Toshiba 
repair shop and they said my mother board needed to be replaced, and since I'm in 
Korea and they need to order the part from the US I have to wait a month or longer 
for it to get here and for them to install it. Which stinks because I would like 
to have had it working by tomorrow. But I guess when you screw up your laptop, there's 
not always a quick or easy way to fix it.

Any @ Larry, I don't remember seeing any recessed reset  button of any sort and my 
computer is at the shop until they get the part so I can't check. But thanks for 
the idea and it may come in handy later on! :)

-David

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