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    HP envy 14, will not boot up

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Mrlowe1234, Mar 17, 2012.

  1. Mrlowe1234

    Mrlowe1234 Newbie

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    I have had my envy since Feb. of last year with no problems until now. I was working on it two days and it crashed and now will not boot. It stops at windows logo screen and then to black screen with error:

    Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
    Status: 0xc0000225
    Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.

    I had no hardware changes and the only software changes were windows updates a few hours earlier.

    It will not boot into safe mode, it will not go into recovery mode. I tried using a windows 7 install disc to repair but it was unable to fix the error.
    I ran the harddrive and memory tests from the hp menus and both passed.

    I have bios f.26. I have tried a few things I found searching but nothing has worked yet. Some with the same issue made a simple change in their bios and it fixed it but those options are not listed unless I can get the advanced bios on f.26?
     
    Mrlowe1234, Mar 17, 2012
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    Mrlowe1234 Newbie

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    I have also tried the recovery from the windows 7 disc but my operating system is not listed. My computer had windows 7 home premium but the disc I have is windows 7 professional (free through school), would that make it unable to see it?
     
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  3. lightbulb

    lightbulb Notebook Guru

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    What about the HP recovery disks? If you didn't delete the recovery partition on the harddrive, you can restore with F11
     
    lightbulb, Mar 17, 2012
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  4. Melagius

    Melagius Notebook Consultant

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    You may have to order recovery disks from HP. You should be able to do this on the item page for your laptop model
     
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    Mrlowe1234 Newbie

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    I do not have the recovery disks right now. I have tried pressing F11 but it still goes to the error screen.
    I tried using the win 7 cd and doing recovery and had the drivers put on a usb and loaded the drivers but it still did not find the operating system. If I were to get the hp recovery disks would it have all the correct drivers on the disc and for sure be able to find the operating system?
    I dont want to spend $30 getting the disks rushed to me if I will still have the same problem, unless there are no other options.
     
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  6. lightbulb

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    Sounds more like some type of hardware error, the windows disk should allow you to do a clean install or repair.
     
    lightbulb, Mar 17, 2012
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    Melagius, Mar 17, 2012
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