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Thread ID: 82806 2007-09-09 02:31:00 PC Not Booting, HELP! gellehar (12720) Press F1
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589404 2007-09-17 06:54:00 Hey ! :D Lots of people know a lot about different things, No one knows every thing, and if they did this forum would shut down over night as there would be no problems and all techs like myself would need a new job . :lol:

Mind you I have seen and heard some badddddd things - just had a customer call who has winxp, running norton 360 with 128Mb RAM - running like a wet week and he was told by another "Tech" that thats ample - well durhhhhh:groan:

Lets hope gellehar gets his problem sorted .
wainuitech (129)
589405 2007-09-17 09:24:00 Ouch. Imagine that PC doing a virus scan... Agent_24 (57)
589406 2007-09-17 09:44:00 Well, after it making some user partition thing of all of the data, it told me to restart. So I did, and I got this "ntldr is compressed" message and that I had to press ctrl + alt + del to restart. It keeps reappearing whenever I restart, any help with this would be muchly appreciated. gellehar (12720)
589407 2007-09-17 09:50:00 Uh-oh.

Are you sure it said compressed, and not corrupted?
Agent_24 (57)
589408 2007-09-17 10:08:00 Uh-oh.

Are you sure it said compressed, and not corrupted?

LOL :lol:

Sorry but I must be ahead of myself today - NOW download that ntldr reboot floppy from my earlier post and that should boot you into windows.

If it does then open start/run and type in scf /scannow If that works let us know as you will need to replace those files.
wainuitech (129)
589409 2007-09-17 10:13:00 if it DOES say that it is compressed, maybe for some reason it's trying to boot from a compressed backup? (HOW or WHY I have no idea)

Well this PC is an HP isn't it? :lol:
Agent_24 (57)
589410 2007-09-17 10:21:00 Nope, it says compressed. i'd be worried if it said corrupted :P Don't have any spare floppies, might see if I can get some later on. Would it work on CD? or do you have to have a floppy for it? gellehar (12720)
589411 2007-09-17 10:32:00 h10025.www1.hp.com Agent_24 (57)
589412 2007-09-17 10:36:00 Bugger, if you posted this before, I could've used System restore, because if you read the alternative steps, it comes up with a command prompt :P Ah well, will look at it tommorow. gellehar (12720)
589413 2007-09-17 10:40:00 Good find agent - 1st ones out - no Recovery CD . Second one may work . -Alternate steps

Love the note under Alternate steps - hope the recovery partition doesn't get damaged, which I have seen happen sometimes .

Once this is working - a suggestion, copy all your data to a safe place, CD, removable drive etc, as I suggest you then rerun the full recovery and reinstall the drive - start from fresh .

Being the Reg was damaged so much, it may only be a matter of time before something else breaks and right back where you started . Nothing worse than an unstable system .
wainuitech (129)
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