NTFS Compression => NTLDR error

[Janiek Buysrogge]

Hi,

Anyone encountered this one ?

- I format boot partition to NTFS with compression enabled
- XPe image is copied to boot partition
- On first boot I get the error: NTLDR is compressed, press
ctrl-alt-del...

As advised on several sites, I tried this from shell in BartPE:

c:\attrib -C ntldr
c:\attrib -C ntdetect.com

But the 'C' switch is not recognized.

Or should I use Windows rescue tools (I'd rather not...)

Will there be any benefits from compression, other than reduce access
operations ?

The reason I tried this is because I read it here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/community/tips/xp/ramewf/default.aspx

Thanks,

Janiek

 

[Guest]

Once the image is copied to the compressed drive, then right click on NTLDR
(in the root) and select Properties. Then click on Advanced. "Compress
contents to save disk space" should be checked. Uncheck it an click OK to
apply.

NTLDR must not be compressed because it is used during boot (before
uncompression stuff is going).

....Jim Hughen

 

[Janiek Buysrogge]

Thanks Jim, that did the trick.

However, a new problem occurs: I can't disable EWF from the command
line to do updates.

I tried decompressing some FBA dll's and EWF dll's but that didn't
help.

Any ideas ?

 

[Janiek Buysrogge]

Hi, it's me again ;-)

I uncompressed the entire disk and the problem persists...

After that I reformatted without compression and everything works from
the start when I put a new image on it.

Actually, for us, the performance is more important than disk usage,
so I guess I'll drop the compression.

JB