Jose
With that NTLDR error as the OP describes there is nothing to be done aside from a
Repair Install or a Reformat.
He can boot with a live distro like Knoppix or Ubuntu bit basically his XP is too
damaged to be fixed outside of what I mentioned
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Peter
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I have a Gateway computer. Last night when I was using the computer to remove
programs from my control panel, I was prompted to restart the computer.
Whenever the computer was finished restarting, a black screen appeared and
the first line read Press F11 to start recovery-of course that won't do
anything when pressed, and the second line says NTLDR compressed- press ctrl
+alt+del to restart. Well, whenever I do that, I come right back to the same
screen. What can I do to be able to get my system back working again? I can't
even get to my Windows screen at all....please help!
You are going to have to boot on something and if you do not have a
bootable XP installation CD (not the same as "recovery disks" from the
manufacturer), you need to create a bootable Recovery Console CD.
You can make a bootable Recovery Console CD by downloading an ISO file
and burning it to a CD.
The same XP Recovery Console commands can be run from the bootable
Recovery Console CD.
RC allows basic file commands - attrib, copy, rename, replace, delete,
cd, chkdsk, fixboot, fixmbr, etc.
The bootable ISO image file you need to download is called:
xp_rec_con.iso
Download the ISO file from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ueyyzfymmig
Use this free and easy program to create your bootable CD:
http://www.imgburn.com/
It would be a good idea to test your bootable CD on the computer that
is working.
You may need to adjust the computer BIOS settings to use the CD ROM
drive as the first boot device instead of the hard disk. These
adjustments are made before Windows tries to load. If you miss it,
you will have to reboot the system again.
When you boot on the CD, follow the prompts:
Press any key to boot from CD...
The Windows Setup... will proceed.
Press 'R' to enter the Recovery Console.
Select the installation you want to access (usually 1: C:\WINDOWS)
You may be asked to enter the Administrator password (usually empty).
You should be in the C:\WINDOWS folder. This is the same as the C:
\WINDOWS folder you see in explorer.
From the prompt, enter:
cd \
or
cd\
to back up a directory to the C:\> prompt (this is where ntldr should
be).
Determine if ntldr is really compressed or just missing.
Enter the following to see the attributes of the ntldr file:
attrib ntldr
The attributes should be SHR (System, Hidden, Read Only).
If ntldr has a C attribute, it is Compressed (some how) so uncompress
it by removing the C attribute:
attrib -c ntldr
If ntldr is missing, we can copy one in from someplace else.
Report back the results.
