Quick Help- BootMGR compressed?

[uncle_zak]

My friend needs some information on his PC. He says that when he starts it up he gets a message saying "BootMGR is compressed" or something along those lines. He asked me to search and try and find some help. I figured I could get some quick reliable help here. But he needs the info soon. So please help.

His PC is running on XP not Vista, if that matters.

[Blahages]

It sounds like he did at least, at one time have Vista on his Machine, and Tried to Compress the Drive, for whatever reason. BootMgr is the Vista Boot Loader, If it was the XP Boot Loader that was having that issue, it'd say NTLDR in place of BootMGR.

Try booting up with an XP Install CD, and at the First Screen where you can do anything, it should list something about The Recovery Console. Get into the Recovery Console, and follow the Instructions, until you get to a Prompt.

At the Prompt, Try typing:




CD \
ATTRIB -C BootMGR
ATTRIB -C NTLDR

Then reboot, and see what happens. If they don't have Vista any more, and still have the Vista boot loader, and don't want it, after you run the Attrib Commands, run a FIXMBR and a FIXBOOT before rebooting.

If the Above didn't work, If he has a Vista DVD, try running this from it. It might also work from the XP recovery Console, so Try that first:



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

[uncle_zak]

Cheers, thanks. Its sorted now.