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‎01-27-2017 11:14 PM

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Product: HP Pavilion All in One PC
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (32-bit)
everytime I try to boot my pc the boot menu isn't showing the hard drive where windows is and sometimes I have to toy around with it to show up and everytime I try to boot it just says operating system not found and an error pops up saying
Your PC needs to be repaired

The Boot Configuration Data File dosent contain valid information for an operating system


please help!
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‎01-28-2017 05:50 AM - edited ‎01-28-2017 05:51 AM

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That is a sign that either the hard drive is failing or the bootloader is corrupted.  You can try to repair that by getting the Windows 8 download from M$ and then boot to the install media and pick repair instead of install once it boots to the media.  Here is the link to download windows 8.1 with a working computer.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8


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