Thank you for your attempt Tom but my computer is on an all black screen which says, " BOOTMGR is compressed", and then it says to,"Press Ctr+Atl+Del to restart". While waiting for someone to respond I ran a diagnostics test which says that nothing is wrong with the system. Besides going to the F12 screen or F2 which is SET UP screen, it does nothing else. I push the Ctr+Atl+Del button and it goes to the beginning DELL LOADING screen like it is going to run right and then goes back to this black screen asking me to press the same buttons again. It just start after loading Windows 7 and ready to do its final rebooting and this is what I am left with now. If you have anymore recommendations please feel free to share them. Once again, thank you for your help Tom.
Somehow the C: drive got compressed, so the boot sector is also compressed and unable to boot.
You'll need to boot to the Windows 7 CD.
Select English, with 'next'. Then select repair your computer at the bottom. It will search for and hopefully find the operating system, do take a note of the drive letter assigned. Hit 'Next' to select the OS. On the next screen select the 'command prompt' option.
Put in the drive letter assigned that you'd made a note of earlier.
i.e. 'c:' , (so if it assigned d, them put 'd:' and hit the enter key. then continue with the rest of the commands below.
cd \windows cd system32 compact /u c:\ compact /u c:\*.* x: bootrec /FixMbr bootrec /fixboot bootrec /rebuildbcd exit
This should resolve the issue as the boot loader was flagged to no longer be compressed, was uncompressed, and then rebuilt.
Tom Green
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December 29th, 2010 18:00
Hello JOSEDELEON
Boot your Windows 7 DVD and press to boot from CD.
When it gets to the first menu click next on second menu you will see
Repair your computer click that. After it searches for windows installation
click use recovery tools and click next. Then select Startup Repair.
Hope this helps.
Tom
josedeleon
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December 29th, 2010 20:00
Thank you for your attempt Tom but my computer is on an all black screen which says, " BOOTMGR is compressed", and then it says to,"Press Ctr+Atl+Del to restart". While waiting for someone to respond I ran a diagnostics test which says that nothing is wrong with the system. Besides going to the F12 screen or F2 which is SET UP screen, it does nothing else. I push the Ctr+Atl+Del button and it goes to the beginning DELL LOADING screen like it is going to run right and then goes back to this black screen asking me to press the same buttons again. It just start after loading Windows 7 and ready to do its final rebooting and this is what I am left with now. If you have anymore recommendations please feel free to share them. Once again, thank you for your help Tom.
Tom Green
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December 29th, 2010 20:00
JOSEDELEON
Did you boot from the Windows 7 install disk and do a boot repair?
That should fix it.
Tom
Tamie
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December 30th, 2010 00:00
Somehow the C: drive got compressed, so the boot sector is also compressed and unable to boot.
You'll need to boot to the Windows 7 CD.
Select English, with 'next'. Then select repair your computer at the bottom. It will search for and hopefully find the operating system, do take a note of the drive letter assigned. Hit 'Next' to select the OS. On the next screen select the 'command prompt' option.
Put in the drive letter assigned that you'd made a note of earlier.
i.e. 'c:' , (so if it assigned d, them put 'd:' and hit the enter key. then continue with the rest of the commands below.
cd \windows
cd system32
compact /u c:\
compact /u c:\*.*
x:
bootrec /FixMbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd
exit
This should resolve the issue as the boot loader was flagged to no longer be compressed, was uncompressed, and then rebuilt.