Hi. Recently (less than a week) purchased (private sale) a used Acer Aspire 7551 running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.

It had been restored to factory or clean install and was running ok although system needed LOADS of Windows updates.

Was in the process of installing these (last i remember correctly was SP1) when last night mid-update the system froze so my husband powered the laptop down using the power button and when tried to restart the boot manager black screen appeared and system wont run
File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc000000f

The laptop came with 'recovery discs' which helpfully do nothing

Can anything be done to help me please? The laptop was purchased for my young sons 6th birthday in a few days and i am now panicking!

Thanks