NTLDR is compressed error message |
| by Oscar Sodani | |
| April 18, 2008 | |
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If you are seeing the NTLDR is compressed error message on a black screen, you are likely quite frustrated because your PC is not booting up. The directions to "press Control Alt Delete to restart" doesn't do anything but bring you back to the same error message. How do you fix it? We'll show you how...
The first thing you will need is your Windows XP Installation Disk. If you don't have this, the recovery disk that came with your computer might also do the trick. Boot from your Windows XP original CD by putting it in the CD drive and restarting your computer. Then go to the recovery console (you should be prompted to press R to go to the recovery console). You should then get a command prompt. C: Then restart your computer again. Hopefully that will do the trick. However, if it still doesn't work, reboot with the CD again, go back into the recovery console, and type : fixmbr Then restart once more. If you have an HP computer with a recovery disk instead of a XP install disk, then you should read these instructions for how to get into the recovery console in order to fix the ntldr error.
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