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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: mtdcld on February 26, 2007, 07:57:38 PM

Title: emachine system recovery
Post by: mtdcld on February 26, 2007, 07:57:38 PM

i have an emachine w/ windows xp that was dumped. The computer went through the system recovery ok until you have to restart the computer to finish. once you restart the computer it runs through the "press 'r'" and press f11 to start recovery, after that I get the message that...  NTLDR is compressed  press ctrl+alt+del to restart.....
at this point we can't do anything.
anyone have any suggestions??

Title: Re: emachine system recovery
Post by: street1 (RIP) on February 27, 2007, 04:52:53 AM

Try--->  Here (http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz/recover_mbr.html)

Also,Do you have the restore disks ?

If you do a zero fill program may work like-->ActiveKilldisk (http://www.killdisk.com/)

Title: Re: emachine system recovery
Post by: mtdcld on February 27, 2007, 02:48:07 PM

nope no restore disks just the system recovery disk. the computer belongs to my brother in law and the computer is now here at my house, he is only 14. I assume that they used the same recovery disk to dump the computer because when I went through the disk it will go through a five step process including formatting the hard drive and putting programming back in. So you think that the hard drive may have a problem with the hard drive.

Title: Re: emachine system recovery
Post by: street1 (RIP) on February 27, 2007, 04:22:03 PM

Does this e-machine have a floppy drive?

Title: Re: emachine system recovery
Post by: mtdcld on February 27, 2007, 04:35:23 PM

no no floppy just cd/dvd rom

Title: Re: emachine system recovery
Post by: mtdcld on February 27, 2007, 04:36:17 PM

i am trying the bootmaster now