I have no installation media, I didn't get anything like that with the computer. I have no physical representation of a serial number (is that a thing of the past?) and I don't know anything about it being somewhere on the disk. When I started SystemRescueCD on the laptop and ran testdisk (for the first time in my life), the partitions seemed OK (to my eye), except for something called Backup Boot(sector|loader|?) that was marked as Bad on one of the partitions.
I have not made recovery disks (yeah, I know). I am not sure exactly what operation I did prior to the crash, but I probably tried to move a partition (which probably was unnecessary anyway). I was going to swap the internal HDD for an SSD and was messing with the partitions to make them fit into the smaller SSD before cloning. I have an ASUS UX32VD (R4002H) bought just days ago with Windows 8 preinstalled. Required file is missing or contains errors.Įrror code: 0xc0000225 My specific situation: The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a
If I press Enter or F8, the central part of the message changes to: [ A text saying I should use recovery tools on my installation media
When I boot my Windows 8 laptop (see details below), it displays this message:Ī required device isn't connected or can't be accessed.
