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Bootmgr is compressed... :(

Discussion in 'Windows Vista' started by arahman, Jun 1, 2009.

  1. arahman

    arahman Guest

    This is for sure that its an old issue and has been quite used and
    abused on this and different forums. I tried to boot my laptop from the
    Windows Vista DVD but it just wouldn't boot. Its booting all fine from
    my desktop but not from my laptop. All i am getting is the bootmgr
    error. Its not even letting me into the BIOS. When I try to press any
    function keys, i get error beeps.

    For the hell of it, I tried to boot from the Windows XP bootable as
    well and even from Linux Fedora bootable...

    Did anyone get anything like this. If yeah and you were able to solve
    the whole thing out, please be kind enough to share the solution. Thank
    you so much!


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  2. db

    db Guest

    might try to initiate
    the fixboot and fixmbr
    commands via the
    recovery console with
    that bootable win cd
    you have.

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    "arahman" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:643b429f6fc70b697794c19c1f2e4b25@nntp-gateway.com...
    >
    > This is for sure that its an old issue and has been quite used and
    > abused on this and different forums. I tried to boot my laptop from the
    > Windows Vista DVD but it just wouldn't boot. Its booting all fine from
    > my desktop but not from my laptop. All i am getting is the bootmgr
    > error. Its not even letting me into the BIOS. When I try to press any
    > function keys, i get error beeps.
    >
    > For the hell of it, I tried to boot from the Windows XP bootable as
    > well and even from Linux Fedora bootable...
    >
    > Did anyone get anything like this. If yeah and you were able to solve
    > the whole thing out, please be kind enough to share the solution. Thank
    > you so much!
    >
    >
    > --
    > arahman
     
  3. Brink

    Brink Guest

    Hello Arahman,

    You might see if you are able to use the created recovery disc in the
    NOTE under step one in the tutorial below, and then see if the rest of
    the tutorial can help fix your issue for you.

    http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/202609-bootmgr-compressed-message-boot-fix.html

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn

    arahman;1056076 Wrote:
    > This is for sure that its an old issue and has been quite used and
    > abused on this and different forums. I tried to boot my laptop from the
    > Windows Vista DVD but it just wouldn't boot. Its booting all fine from
    > my desktop but not from my laptop. All i am getting is the bootmgr
    > error. Its not even letting me into the BIOS. When I try to press any
    > function keys, i get error beeps.
    >
    > For the hell of it, I tried to boot from the Windows XP bootable as
    > well and even from Linux Fedora bootable...
    >
    > Did anyone get anything like this. If yeah and you were able to solve
    > the whole thing out, please be kind enough to share the solution. Thank
    > you so much!
    >
    > FYI - I have an ACER ASPIRE 5500Z... I don't know but from the earlier
    > posts, I saw some Acer users getting this issue... Not sure but does the
    > make has to do anything with the error?



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  4. Brink

    Brink Guest

    Hello Tonko, and welcome to Vista Forums.

    Please double check with this '*_tutorial_*'
    (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/202609-bootmgr-compressed-message-boot-fix.html)
    to select the *Load Drivers* option instead.

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn


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  5. tonko

    tonko Guest

    hey shawn i have followed the tut and i have been trying to decompress
    all files on the drive. this seems to be a very long and painful process
    with no avail. is there a directory that i can find bootmgr in? just to
    save me doing the whole drive. please.
    thanx tonko


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  6. tonko

    tonko Guest

    hey shawn
    disreguard last question, realised what i was doing wrong and its all
    good now.
    thankyou so very very much, was about to throw laptop out window, so my
    laptop thanx you too. cant thank you enough, tonko.


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  7. Brink

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  8. arahman

    arahman Guest

    So my laptop did not boot from the CD/DVD ROM... Had to take the hard
    disk out, connect it to a IDE to USB converter wire and decompress my C
    drive from my desktop...

    It works now :)


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  9. Brink

    Brink Guest

    Arahman,

    I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out and decompressed now. :)

    arahman;1061411 Wrote:
    > So my laptop did not boot from the CD/DVD ROM... Had to take the hard
    > disk out, connect it to a IDE to USB converter wire and decompress my C
    > drive from my desktop...
    >
    > It works now :)



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