Operating system not found on my acer v5 laptop

Ivan Ancheta

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Sep 17, 2014
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My laptop keeps on failing to boot up and says operating system not found or sometimes a blue screen error 0xc0000185 or sometimes another error. I forgot the name and i didnt took a screenshot of it. Restarting it by ctrl alt del does the trick and boots up. But it takes a lot of times doing it. I did a refresh on my laptop. Did a sfc scan. Tried changing uefi to legacy. But still this problem shows up. And right now. I tried like a thousand times doing ctrl alt del and still it doesnt boot up. But i can boot into safe mode. I just dont know what to do from there though. Please help me out. Is my hdd failing or do i need a complete format? My laptop didnt have a cd when i bought it. Also there was a time when i checked the bios it didnt detect my hdd. But that only happened one time. Ive been experiencing this for a couple of months now. Almost a year i think. But didnt decide on asking here since ctrl alt del does the trick. But now i really want to get rid of this. Im running windows 8 btw

[Moderator addendum: OS = Windows 8]
 

Ivan Ancheta

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Sep 17, 2014
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Ill download it as soon as my laptop works. Then go to safe mode. having problems again with boot up. The other bluescreen errors i got was winload.efi, system, driver/ntsfi(i think not sure but there was a driver in it) theres 2 more but i forgot it.
 

Ivan Ancheta

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Sep 17, 2014
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what does that do? Ill download it as soon as my laptop works. Then go to safe mode. having problems again with boot up. The other bluescreen errors i got was winload.efi, system, driver/ntsfi(i think not sure but there was a driver in it) theres 2 more but i forgot it.