Satellite L300-055 won't boot windows

Hi,
I have a satellite L300-055 laptop that fails to boot up.
I shut it down one night and the next time I turned it on it wouldn't boot. It goes to a black screen with the following error message.
\Boot\BCD
Status OxcOOOOOOf
An error occured while attempting to read the boot configuration data.
It asks me for a recovery disk, but stupidly I didn't make one. Is there anything that can be done to recover the system?
Any help would be appreciated!
Jen

Satellite L300-055 (PSLB8C-055019) with Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
-------------------8<------------------- <snip> --------------------
If you can reach the recovery environment, Jen, there are lots of things to try.
Turn the computer on and immediately press and hold the F8 key.
On the Advanced Boot Options menu, choose Repair Your Computer.
When you reach the System Recovery Options menu (the recovery environment), choose Startup Repair.
If that doesn't do the trick, go back to the System Recovery Options menu and do a System Restore.
Let us know how it goes.
-Jerry

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