Aspire one d257 fails to start

oalamdari

Hi I have an aspire one D257, and it fails to start windows show this message:

"windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. 

blah blah blah

status: 0xc000000f

info: the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible"

 

I tried to install a fresh copy of windows but the problem persists. I do not have neither recovery CD nor USB recovery.

What should I do.

 

Omid

st3ph3nnity

I had a similar problem recently...I tried lots of times with different ideas to no avail...fortunately I had a Hirens Boot disc which I used with an external disc reader to "boot from hard drive" program on the disc...you may not have this disc but they are a couple of quid from eBay and a lot cheaper than buying a windows disc.

st3ph3nnity

I should add that you can also download the disc and programs for free off the Hirens website...it has all the programs etc available for free...the program I used was the "boot from hard drive" program...apparently the RAM upgrade had caused this problem of failure to restore but it worked straight off with this.

Mr_Helper

Hi,

Do you have hability to get in the BIOS ??

I would suggest to run Safe Mode and check if you experience the same issue. Please follow the steps below to start the computer in Safe Mode :

1 Power off the computer.

2 Restart the computer, tap F8 on Acer logo screen about 3 times.

3 This will take you to ‘Windows Advanced Boot Options.

4 Choose "Safe Mode" in the Advanced Boot menu