Recovery Manager could not restore Presario CQ56 & system won't boot, gives error BOOTMGR is missing

1. Product Name and Number
Compaq Presario CQ56
2. Operating System installed (if applicable)
Windows 7
3. Error message (if any)
from error log:
Hard Disk (result-failed) id# UAMBXQ-5H06AK-XD003F-618U03   HARD DISK 1
Start-up (result-failed) id# UAMBXQ-5H60AK-XD003F-40G403     MEMORY MODULE 2
4. Any changes made to your system before the issue occurred
There were no changes made to the computer, prior to the restore the computer would boot up, however, it would freeze after the system was up and running. Restarting the computer did not help and when I tried to restore it to an earlier point it said that it was unable to complete the restore. I then tried to the factory reset, however, it gave me an error message: "Recovery Manager could not restore your computer using the factory image. Please contact HP support. Error code: 0xe0ef0003. When I tried to restart the computer afterwards, it gave an error message: "BOOTMGR is missing, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". How do I fix this?
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Hello crossurmind.
What sorts of issues led up to the computer originally not booting? Were you getting a lot of blue screen errors?
The two items you posted from the error log seem to indicate that it is having trouble reading the hard drive and possibly the memory. After trying the restore it seems that it failed causing the boot section of the install to "not be found."
I think you should begin by using the built in tests for the hard drive and memory located in the BIOS. Follow this document to perform the hard drive test. All you'll have to do is repeat the process and select "memory" in order to perform the memory test. Make sure to post the result of both of these tests.
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