Blue BCD recovery screen, no bios

[Woolyemu]

Ok first time poster.

A friend told me his laptop wasn't booting and needed recovery cd, having one I thought I'd help... now I need help.

 

Acer aspire M with windows 8. Powers on can hear one beep and optical drive spinning up then shows acer logo and goes directly to blue recovery screen with error 0xc000000d stating BCD is missing files. I'm familiar enough with this process to repair it but it's always been win7 not 8. Currently unable to enter the BIOS, boot cd, or USB recovery. Computer shuts down after about 10 seconds on blue recovery screen. At time of error laptop battery died, was recharged, and it booted directly to recovery screen. Unsure of what programs were open or if anything was recently installed or changed.

 

any suggestions?

[Droidbot]

7 minutes ago, Woolyemu said:

Ok first time poster.

A friend told me his laptop wasn't booting and needed recovery cd, having one I thought I'd help... now I need help.

 

Acer aspire M with windows 8. Powers on can hear one beep and optical drive spinning up then shows acer logo and goes directly to blue recovery screen with error 0xc000000d stating BCD is missing files. I'm familiar enough with this process to repair it but it's always been win7 not 8. Currently unable to enter the BIOS, boot cd, or USB recovery. Computer shuts down after about 10 seconds on blue recovery screen. At time of error laptop battery died, was recharged, and it booted directly to recovery screen. Unsure of what programs were open or if anything was recently installed or changed.

 

any suggestions?

According to acer, mashing f2 when their splash screen comes up works to boot you into the UEFI

[Woolyemu]

5 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

According to acer, mashing f2 when their splash screen comes up works to boot you into the UEFI

No dice. F2, shift+f12, holding Fn and power button. Not sure if it's an indicator of larger problem or just win8 mocking me.

[Droidbot]

2 minutes ago, Woolyemu said:

No dice. F2, shift+f12, holding Fn and power button. Not sure if it's an indicator of larger problem or just win8 mocking me.

https://www.eightforums.com/general-support/29362-no-uefi-tile-no-option-function-key-bios-startu-2.html?s=b26116d3a5659752f906486ae0d2bd01

 

This guy with a V5 managed to get in by mashing f2 apparently, worth a try

[Woolyemu]

Still mashing in hopes of some luck.

[SaladFingers]

Sounds like the Boosector is corrupted. I would tell you the steps to repair from recovery, but if the thing shuts down after few seconds it beats me, never heard of such a problem before. Could it be overheating and hitting a failsafe at the same time?

 

Also you probably don't need a recovery disk either, most laptops nowadays have a recovery partition right in their storage drive.

 

That "blue recovery screen", does it have a startup repair option? Or CMD? Will the computer stay on if you pick one of those options?

[Woolyemu]

8 minutes ago, SaladFingers said:

Sounds like the Boosector is corrupted. I would tell you the steps to repair from recovery, but if the thing shuts down after few seconds it beats me, never heard of such a problem before. Could it be overheating and hitting a failsafe at the same time?

 

Also you probably don't need a recovery disk either, most laptops nowadays have a recovery partition right in their storage drive.

 

That "blue recovery screen", does it have a startup repair option? Or CMD? Will the computer stay on if you pick one of those options?

No options for anything. Really hope I'm just missing something. Also hears a crappy phone pic of the screen.

[SaladFingers]

I got an idea for you, but it's a little messy... If you have a desktop lying around, pull out the laptop's drive and connect it to the desktop. (At this point I'd also recommend a complete backup of the drive before proceeding). Boot from the desktop's OS, then use http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/ to repair the BCD of the drive. Or try to run the bootsect command from CMD: https://neosmart.net/wiki/bootsect/

 

I can vouch for the above software as I've repaired dozens of broken installations with it in the past.

[Woolyemu]

22 minutes ago, SaladFingers said:

I got an idea for you, but it's a little messy... If you have a desktop lying around, pull out the laptop's drive and connect it to the desktop. (At this point I'd also recommend a complete backup of the drive before proceeding). Boot from the desktop's OS, then use http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/ to repair the BCD of the drive. Or try to run the bootsect command from CMD: https://neosmart.net/wiki/bootsect/

 

I can vouch for the above software as I've repaid dozens of broken installations with it in the past.

Had hoped not to have to, but tearing into it now. Thanks for the quick replies! (and the software recommendation) A reward of chicken wings and beer has been promised if I can recover drive contents so the pressure is on! I'll update once I get a look at the drive in my desktop.

[SaladFingers]

2 minutes ago, Woolyemu said:

Had hoped not to have to, but tearing into it now. Thanks for the quick replies! (and the software recommendation) A reward of chicken wings and beer has been promised if I can recover drive contents so the pressure is on! I'll update once I get a look at the drive in my desktop.

Hey if that works I want a bite of that chicken

[Woolyemu]

Tried everything to no avail. Pulled what I could off the old drive and went for a reformat. Thanks for the help!

[SaladFingers]

59 minutes ago, Woolyemu said:

Tried everything to no avail. Pulled what I could off the old drive and went for a reformat. Thanks for the help!

Oh well, sorry to hear that. At least the files were intact. Anytime man!