Bootmgr is compressed

[roadrippersid]

Hi fellas i upgraded my pc recently so i installed vista ultimate and when i was installing GTA 4 i needed to upgrade my vista to sp1 so i did it bt when i restarted and checked my activation was not done.So i installed activation and restarted i got error at the post as "Bootmgr is compressed Press CTRL Alt Delete to restart".I restart and same thing happens.My board is gigabyte Ep-31 Ds3l and i cant go into safe mode by hitting F8 .I feel my boot manager is corrupted and i need to back up my files in my C drive how 2 fix my boot mgr any help guys ???

 

[Lazzy Boy]

i used to get the same message randomly and then ended up with reinsalling my Os.

You can do one thing..insert a bootable disk and restart ur pc and when it asks u too press a key to boot from dvd/cd dont press anything let it boot and hopefully ull get into windows.

 

[roadrippersid]

i Don think that ll work as if it worked then it would hav booted normally and i cant even go 2 safe mode or command prompt i can copy files thru command prompt atleast...

 

[Lazzy Boy]

i used to get a msg bootmgr file missing press ctrl alt delete and even after doing that i wud get the same msg again and again..so i just tried the above and it got me into windows.

 

[leomax]

I think your bootmgr file(s) are compressed with ntfs compression.

Use some live cd or even the bootup disk,un-compress the bootmgr.

 

[roadrippersid]

can i do it wit ma vista cd.. and whre are teh options .. don hav a live cd ll try wit gpart cd need to download that...:S

 

[roadrippersid]

I need to abck up some files on ma c drive.. how do i do that...cant even go 2 cmd prompt..

 

[leomax]

From vista boot dvd,goto repair (or whatever its name was),then go into command prompt, Then try fixboot .You should be able to boot to vista after.

 

[roadrippersid]

yah lll try that tom when i go home ...

 

[clown_abhi]

Exactly, the repair option in the Vista DVD will resolve the boot problem.

I am just wondering how the boot manager got compressed.
Never compress ur local drive using NTFS compression. Did u try this before the boot issue?

 

[Party Monger]

Take the harddrive to another pc with xp or vista and uncompress the c drive of your hdd

 

[roadrippersid]

Exactly, the repair option in the Vista DVD will resolve the boot problem.

I am just wondering how the boot manager got compressed. Never compress ur local drive using NTFS compression. Did u try this before the boot issue?

i updated to vista sp1 and activation was gone.. so i installed the activator which needed restart and that shit did al this ...compressed my boot mgr..i ll go home tom and do a repair and check hope i don need to install again hate tehn i need to install gta 4 again...pita..:no:

 

[s_anuj]

I kept getting that message when i was trying to dual boot xp sp3 & vista sp1.

The short term corrective action is:
- boot thru ur vista dvd
- get to the command prompt screen
- type "bootrec /fixboot" and then "bootrec /fixmbr"
- exit & restart

it fixed it for me for a couple of boots then it was the same 'ol story.

So i just hid the XP HDD in Bios, re-installed vista in the other drive. now there are no more bootmgr errors

on the flipside, i don't get the xp boot option either :huh:

 

[roadrippersid]

expand bootmgr temp
attrib bootmgr -s -r -h
del bootmgr
ren temp bootmgr
attrib bootmgr -a +s +r +h

i am gonna try this today ....did some googlin and got this...

a=archive
s=system
r=read only
h=hidden

 

[roadrippersid]

the above code worked for me bt took time to get repair screen as teh system was freezed then gav this code in cmd prompt...restaart and worked...Thanks to all u gav suggestions...others havin the same prob use this code...