Vista - Bootmgr is compressed... :(

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?

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@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:643b429f6fc70b697794c19c1f2e4b25@xxxxxx-gateway.com...

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.

BootMGR Compressed Message at Boot Fix

Hope this helps,
Shawn

hey
the prob i have is when i go to boot up i get the message. "bootmgr is compressed" and will go no further.
i have followed this tut to get system recovery options. i have run startup repair and it doesnt seem to reconise this problem. it says to restart the computer witch puts me back to where i started from with the same message. please help.
kind regards tonko

Hello Tonko, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Please double check with this tutorial to select the Load Drivers option instead.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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

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.

You're welcome Tonko. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out.

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

Arahman,

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