Windows Cannot Boot. Vstaldr is Compressed.

Hello Everyone, I am having problems with booting my computer. While cleaning up my hardrive I somehow compressed some files on my hard drive. Ever since when I try to start my computer I get no further than the compaq load screen and then the message, "Vstaldr is Compressed, ctrl + alt +del to restart. I have been working to fix this problem for 2 days and nothing so far has worked. I booted computer from disk with a new vista disk and got into the recovery manager. I have run startup repair several time, and done a complete system restore both to no avail. When I ran the start up repair I got a message somewhere along the lines od, "Start up Repair cannot repair this comoputer automatically" along with this diagnostic report

Problem Event Name: StartupRepairV2
Problem Signature 01: External Media
Problem Signature 02: 6.0.6000.1686.6.0.6000.16386
Problem Signature 03: 6
Problem Signature 04: 131074
Problem Signature 05: NoRootCause
Problem Signature 06: NoBootFailure
Problems Signature 07: 0
Problem Signature 08: 0
Problems Signature 09: 0
Problem Signature 10: 1168
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

I'm pretty sure I could preform a clean install of Vista and recover the computer, but I really need to salvage the files I have saved on this hardrive. Thanks in advance to any advice or help given.

Welcome
If your stuff is your only concern try this
Use Ubuntu Live CD to Backup Files from Your Dead Windows Computer - How-To Geek

Then when you reinstall backup, backup, backup

That worked great. I was able to salvage everything using Ubuntu. Thank you so much for you help!

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Thanks for reporting.

Just noticed, thanks for the generous rep and kind words.