Hi, When I boot up my brother's laptop it just comes up with "NTLDR is compressed" press ctrl alt del to restart, It won't let me access safe mode do i need the xp restore disk to repair this fault? Thanks
Hi, When I boot up my brother's laptop it just comes up with "NTLDR is compressed" press ctrl alt del to restart, It won't let me access safe mode do i need the xp restore disk to repair this fault? Thanks
Sonds like the mbr is borked, the procedure for restoring it is here> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...d_tro_ldau.asp
Try these two threads, I think they have the solution for you.
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/...717/14717.html
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.c...=751290&page=1
Thanks I used knoppix to copy the info across, and used system restore that was built onto the harddrive with a clean install. thanks
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