Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/ 2009-01-08T08:35:53-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2008-11-15T21:07:02-05:00 leo weeks http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/?o=20#548172 have this problem, did &quot;recovery&quot; with the disk inserted at least ten times, never helps or changes the message I get when I turn on computer<br /> &quot;press f11 to start recovery&quot;, then &quot;ntldr is compressed&quot;<br /> <br /> Anyone got any suggestion to get my laptop working again? (yes paying to get it fixed has been considered, but not possible right now) text/html 2008-11-15T20:33:58-05:00 leo weeks http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/?o=20#548171 I have this problem now on may gateway laptop, how did you get past this message, I don't care about saving info, as I have already pressed f11 and did recovery ten times at least and still didnt help, any suggestions? text/html 2008-11-15T20:24:53-05:00 leo weeks http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/?o=20#548170 I have the same problem with gateway laptop except I cannot get past the &quot;ntldr is compressed&quot; message (no explanation on here on how he got past that), did system recovery from disk ten times at least never gets past this, do not have a floppy drive. any chance you can help me with same problem? text/html 2008-09-06T05:05:24-05:00 angryhippy http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/?o=20#544622 If it's the E machine CD then you're gonna lose everything. It doesn't have any repair options. Do any of those F keys get you into the safe mode choice screen? Right now what I would suggest is to take out your hard drive set the jumper to slave and attach it to the computer you're using to write this. Pull off all the files then put it back in and reinstall windows. If you can get into safe mode with command prompt you might be able to start system restore and try to set the system back to an earlier date. Or you can start the system file checker which will replace the corrupted system files.<br /> <br /> Are you sure F8 doesn't work? Continue tapping on it don't hold it down. If you get to a black screen that asks if you want to boot windows XP, hit F8 one more time to take you back to the safe mode options. text/html 2008-09-06T00:43:22-05:00 D Johnson http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/?o=20#544603 It only recognize F2 &amp; F10, it doesn't recognize F8. When I put the Recovery CD in the CD ROM it doesn't recognize that either, but I was able to install the System Recovery CD on the machine prior to it crashing. If I press F11 or R the System Recovery Console appears. I don't have a Windows XP Home CD available. What else can I do? I need all the help I can get here. I don't want to lose all of my data. text/html 2008-09-05T01:22:48-05:00 angryhippy http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/?o=20#544537 Is it the e-machine recovery disk, or a regular XP Home CD with the copper holographic face? See if you can get into Safe Mode with command prompt by pressing F8 continually when it starts booting It takes you to the boot choice window. Either safe mode with command prompt or last known good config. If you have a regular XP CD forget all that and just post back, I'll tell you how to do a repair install without using the recovery console and saving all your data. text/html 2008-09-05T00:36:50-05:00 D Johnson http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/?o=20#544527 The brand is &quot;emachines&quot;<br /> <br /> I followed the steps below, but they did not work<br /> <br /> I boot to the recovery console follow these steps:<br /> 1. Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and then restart the computer. Click(or press any key), but it did not respond to my pressing the key<br /> <br /> I would like to keep all of my data from backup, but It appears that I have to perform a FULL Restore without saving all data.<br /> <br /> What do I do from here??? text/html 2008-09-04T04:14:38-05:00 angryhippy http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/?o=20#544449 So this system of yours. Is it like a <a target="_blank" href="/action/r/http://www.dell.com/">Dell</a> HP or some other brand name? text/html 2008-09-03T23:35:49-05:00 D Johnson http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/?o=20#544432 I get the following error message everytime my pc reboots &quot;NTLDR is Compressed&quot; Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart. It keeps repeating itself everytime I reboot. When hitting any key to boot from CD is just bypasses and I get the same result over and over. How can I get the pc to boot manually in order to fix the problem?<br /> <br /> I was able to into the Recovery System from the CD and it installed it, but it only runs Recovery setup to install new OS. It want allow me to boot from A:\ OR E:\Drive by hitting any key. text/html 2007-01-29T22:48:26-05:00 Len Inkster http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/?o=20#473253 The only sure fire way of not getting this message is to not buy a Gateway Tablet in the first place.<br /> <br /> Assuming like me you have, and assuming like me something nasty has happended to it, then you are going to use the Gateway recovery disk and you have got the message.<br /> <br /> So what to do?<br /> <br /> I have been through all the usual suspect of creating a boot disk and using the attrib command, and this doesn't always work. As many out there might have found.<br /> <br /> Heres the sure fire way of fixing the problem. It needs a little Linux/Unix experience but it's fairly intuituive (I hope)<br /> <br /> Download a copy of Knoppix (<a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.knoppix.org/" target="_blank">http://www.knoppix.org/</a>)<br /> <br /> You only need the CD version for system recovery, and believe me this has made my life soooooo much easier. I recommend everyone has one of these in their toolbox.<br /> <br /> Boot the Knoppix CD you create from the ISO download. (Use Nero or Barts CD)<br /> <br /> This will automatically load the hard disk as /media/sda1<br /> <br /> Open a terminal session and issue an su command. There is no password so you will get placed straight in as root.<br /> <br /> type umount /dev/sda1<br /> <br /> This will unmount the hard disk.<br /> <br /> type mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/sda1<br /> <br /> This will mount the disk<br /> <br /> Then put a USR pen, or FAT formatted USB drive into the USB slot.<br /> <br /> If a popup box appears asking you what to do select &quot;Do nothing&quot;<br /> <br /> Then in the terminal session type<br /> <br /> mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1<br /> <br /> This mounts the Media stick or USB drive<br /> <br /> then type <br /> <br /> cp /media/sda1/ntldr /media/sdb1<br /> <br /> then type <br /> <br /> rm /media/sda1/ntldtr<br /> <br /> Respond yes to the question &quot;do you want to delete blah bblah blah&quot;<br /> <br /> then type <br /> <br /> cp /media/sdb1/ntldr /media/sda1<br /> <br /> This copies the uncompressed ntldr (it's uncompressed because you can't have a compressed file on a VFAT partition) back to NTFS.<br /> <br /> As Knoppix wont compress the file unless you say so, it doesn't.<br /> <br /> Shutdown Knoppix, remove the CD &amp; USB Device and reboot.<br /> <br /> Works everytime. text/html 2007-01-10T19:45:30-05:00 Marianne Marlow http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/?o=20#469781 Payton<br /> <br /> I just wanted to say that your message and instructions saved my data for me. Thank you so much! <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":)" title=":)"><br /> <br /> I had a S.M.A.R.T. warning that my hard drive was about to fail, so I switched off S.M.A.R.T. in BIOS, did a (non formatting)system restore and couldn't get past the &quot;NTLDR is Compressed - Press Ctrl Alt_Del to restart&quot; message.<br /> <br /> Followed your instructions below and was able to get in, grab my files and now I have to replace my HDD and battery and hope for the best. Can't really afford a new PC at the mo!<br /> <br /> Thank you so much for your instructions - you're the best!!<br /> <br /> x<br /> <br /> Payton said: <div class="quote">Hi Paul. Are you ready? OK Put a blank floppy disk into your floppy drive and boot up. Wne you get to the blinking A: type in format a: When it is done leave it in the drive. OK now go to start/all programs/accessories. Find note pad and open it. Copy and paste this whole thing into the notepad page<br /> <br /> [boot loader]<br /> timeout=30<br /> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS<br /> [operating systems]<br /> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=&quot;Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition&quot; /fastdetect<br /> <br /> Man I hate these stupid little adds. When I saved this it had a line under XP which was highlighted in red. Get rid of that line or the file will not work. Hit file in the tool bar then save as. At the prompt it will have the name txt. Erase that and type in boot.ini then hit save. Go to where you saved the file and right click on it and send to a: (3 1/2 floppy.).<br /> <br /> Put in your XP CD with the Pc already opened to windows. Go to the CDROM in my compuer right click on it and hit open. Not autoplay just open. when the XP disk opens you will see a folder marked I386 Double click to open it. There will be a lot of files. We need 2. Find ntldr and NTDETECT, Copy both of those to the floppy. Now go to my computer and right click on the A drive and open the floppy. There should be just the 3 files in there, nothing else. We cool? OK, restart your computer and go into the BIOS and change the boot order to floppy drive as first boot device. Hit F10 to save changes say Y and hit enter. The computer will now use the ntldr file on the floppy to boot you up to the XP. It will be a smooth boot. You won't have to tell it anything or do anything different. It should just boot right up like normal. When you get to the desktop save all your files. Then you can either do a repair install or clean reinstall, or try to fix the boot sector. Let me know if it works for you?</div><br /> text/html 2005-03-02T09:26:43-05:00 angryhippy http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/#249345 Paul I'm running out of ideas here. Let's try this. Go to start/search and type in mp3 If any of the mp3 files come up right click on it and hit open containing folder. See if that will get you to music files. Other than that, here is a free data recovery program. Try it and see if you can get into them.<br /> <br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm" target="_blank">http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm</a> text/html 2005-03-02T02:12:17-05:00 Paul McGuire http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/#249144 Well, that opened it. Nothin there. Looked in Program Files and I see all my old folders, but none of the links to the actual programs work, and there aren't any of my video/mp3/work files. How do I format/reinstall/get all my space back to start from scratch? I've come to terms with it and I might as well stop trying to get everything back, tho it's strange that it says that space is used. lol text/html 2005-03-02T02:05:13-05:00 angryhippy http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/#249143 Local disk D. OK somehow you got the new install on a different partition. Try the My Documents entry in run again but substitute the C for D text/html 2005-03-02T01:45:11-05:00 Paul McGuire http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/40384/#249133 &quot;Windows cannot find 'c:\documents'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search.&quot; If I just click browse w/o typin gthat I get Local Disk (C<img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":)" title=":)"> but I also have a Local Disk (D<img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":)" title=":)"> which I've never seen before... I feel like I should be paying you to help me! I really want you to know I appreciate your time sooo much.