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Comment by Rose - 17 November 2007 @ 16:50 Reply

The problem with the final option is that -c is not a supported swith with the attrib command, or am I missing something?

Comment by colin turnbull - 11 February 2008 @ 23:41 Reply

hi these options are not possible if you have compressed the drive, as you need the vista dvd to get to the command prompt to get to recovery console.

Comment by Jose Plunkett - 20 February 2008 @ 8:16 Reply

I got a easy way for everybody, check this:
go thru the usual steps…
reboot, push open the dvd drive, load OS Vista CD/DVD, before the ridiculed bootmgr compressed shows, shutdown, boot from the dvd, let the installer do it’s job.
when reach choice “install now” choose “repair the pc” instead.
In the System Recovery Options dialog box, choose the drive of your Windows installation and click Next.
click Startup Repair.
Just click “load drives”since you know the answer about “repair”….nothing wrong..)=:
see that??, you’re inside your HD!! I assuming that from here everybody knows what to do, if not, that what follow:
Browse for your “C” Drive, right click properties and fellas, reverse what you did, exit, reboot and get a real cold Corona
send me a note, I need some help on Server 2008 config
peace..

Comment by aniket - 6 March 2008 @ 0:10 Reply

dude … please tell me the further steps .. i require in as soon as possible… my xp is in C and vista is in G . 1 mistake i did is that i installed vista on a logical drive. untill final touch of vista finished with loading and preparing desktop,it restarted [ final restart ] since then i m stuck up : bootmgr is compressed press alt-ctrl-del
please reply as soon as possible… or mail at apug15@yahoo.com ..
thanks !!

Jose Plunkett
I got a easy way for everybody, check this:
go thru the usual steps…
reboot, push open the dvd drive, load OS Vista CD/DVD, before the ridiculed bootmgr compressed shows, shutdown, boot from the dvd, let the installer do it’s job.
when reach choice “install now” choose “repair the pc” instead.
In the System Recovery Options dialog box, choose the drive of your Windows installation and click Next.
click Startup Repair.
Just click “load drives”since you know the answer about “repair”….nothing wrong..)=:
see that??, you’re inside your HD!! I assuming that from here everybody knows what to do, if not, that what follow:
Browse for your “C” Drive, right click properties and fellas, reverse what you did, exit, reboot and get a real cold Corona
send me a note, I need some help on Server 2008 config
peace..

Comment by Simon - 1 April 2008 @ 14:41 Reply

Thanks snakefoot …good advice

Comment by Night Flyer - 9 April 2008 @ 17:25 Reply

Everybody keep saying boot from the Vista DVD and then click repair. 6 times this month, I have lost the bootmgr file and when I try to do a repair, I get the message that no Windows operating system can be found.
I put the disk in another computer and checked the properties and it shows that the entire disk is completely used up, but there are no files that can be read. When I try to see any files, I get the Message that I do not have access to this drive. Now what.
This is ongoing with me. I have had the problem on WD and Seagate and Maxtor drives. Tried them all. No viruses found, etc.
Please help.

Comment by Zackster - 5 May 2008 @ 3:33 Reply

Then…… Browse to the C drive. Right click and go to properties then un-check the “compress drive” button. Move the window that pops up so that you can see the apply to c:\ drive or c:\drive and sub folders slect your choice and press apply then reboot. If when your pc comes back up if it comes up with a different error then go boot off of the Vista CD and run a restore to an eairler time. At that point your pc will be uncompressed and you will be able to boot successfully after the restore has completed.

Comment by denniski - 9 July 2008 @ 2:04 Reply

hooooya! ur the man! the last thing in my mind is to reformat my PC…until I read ur remarks from BOOTMGR! Thanks again! u save all my file LOL! keep it up!

Comment by Wasim - 9 July 2008 @ 7:28 Reply

my vista disc does not load what should i do

Comment by redzakk - 7 August 2008 @ 17:14 Reply

I am doing everything you have listed here, but it still does not work.

1) compact /U C:\bootmgr –> the command “compact” is written wrong or was not found ???

2) attrib -c c:|bootmgr –> doesn´t work either

3) getting into my C: HD and rightclicking on bootmgr –> what shall I reverse? I haven´t done any change on my PC… well not me, I do not know, maybe any program?

Please, what happens if I overwrite (install) a new version over the old one? Do I losse all my data?

I am really enthisiasmated about all these computer champions here, really ;-) I am impressed!!! best regards from redzakk

Comment by redzakk - 7 August 2008 @ 17:28 Reply

Hey Jose, and you other cracks. It worked :-) I am happy, very happy :-)

TXS to all

Comment by ShambleS - 21 August 2008 @ 15:37 Reply

disc contents cat be see?
use command prompt and try
FIXBOOT “drive letter”

Compressed or corrupted Boot Recor?
Try
FIXMBR

Comment by texas medina - 29 August 2008 @ 16:03 Reply

Am getting the some message but nothing happens when i do ctrl alt delete let me how did this happen? did someone or a web site cause this to happen.

Comment by Art Kosmin - 2 September 2008 @ 0:42 Reply

guys,

Mucho thanks. You saved my butt. I thought I lost the whole hard drive.

Art Kosmin

Comment by Jamsine - 21 September 2008 @ 18:05 Reply

When I open my laptop I find a message on the screen :
Boot Manager is missing , Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart your computer .
So please what can I do to open the laptop normally and fix all the errors .
Thank you .. please contact me as soon as possible .

Comment by Filip Kofron - 29 September 2008 @ 18:57 Reply

Hello everyone,

I had these problems too. I was unable to fix that, but ntldr and bootmgr were without the compress flag. So I was looking for another reason and finally i found file “grldr”, it shows like grub in hex editor :-O. So my problem was solved by attrib -c grldr under XP recovery console.

Comment by SneakyPeakey - 3 October 2008 @ 20:48 Reply

i have had the same problem with the disk drive not showing up in the ‘repair computer’ section, clicked on next and went into command prompt, went on ‘diskpart’ and set the disk a ‘active’ it messed up wen i was installin mac osx as a dual boot.

Comment by Kamee - 5 October 2008 @ 0:55 Reply

Hi,
if your still having the Problem with
(*BOOTMGR is compressed. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart*)

Then you have Two ways to Fix that.

(No 1 Way)
Boot from the Vista DVD.
Click ‘Repair my Computer’
At the prompt to select your OS installation, click the button that says ‘Load Drivers’. This should bring up a explorer-style drive browser.

Then just right-click on the drive you tried to compress, and deselect ‘Compress this Drive’, which should still be ticked on. Hit apply, and apply to subfolders/files.

Reboot.

If that don’t work for you then!

(The Second way)
If the previous method does not resolve the problem, you can rebuild the BCD store by using the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment. To do this, follow these steps:

- Get your Vista installation DVD and pop it into your drive.
- Then restart your computer.
- Press a key when you are prompted.
- Select a language, a time, a currency, and a keyboard or another input method, and then click Next
- Click Repair your computer
- Click the operating system that you want to repair, and then click Next
- In the System Recovery Options dialog box, click Command Prompt
- Type bootrec /rebuildbcd and then press ENTER

• If Bootrec runs successfully, it will present you with the installation path of a Windows directory. To add the entry to the BCD store, type Yes . A confirmation message appears that indicates the entry was added successfully.

• If Bootrec cannot locate any missing Windows installations, you must remove the BCD store, and then you must re-create it. To do this, type the following commands in the order shown below: (Remember to press ENTER after each command)

bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup

ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old

bootrec /rebuildbcd

- Restart the computer.

Thanks

Comment by amandeep singh - 1 November 2008 @ 15:49 Reply

Jose Plunkett, u r a genius. I kept trying to repair it through the promopt to no avail. didnt think of such an easy method.

Comment by bad_santa - 5 November 2008 @ 20:52 Reply

Man you are a GENIUS…many thanks.
I just did the mooves yo said about missing boot manager.
First I didn’t wanna believe…after the mooves…ewrika…
You just earned another fan.

Comment by fashiondesign_guru - 12 November 2008 @ 9:20 Reply

everything sounds good except my laptop doesn’t have a working cdrom.

is there a way to boot or do anything from another pc using usb connection? all I need is to boot the pc because there’s a recovery section or partition or a locked drive inside.. which is weird because I can’t access to it or even see it from bios. actually this all started when I was using that recovery thing and it was restoring the pc to the factory settings and reformatting vista while saving my data in a seperate folder to which I was going to be able to access after the reformat, but little after it started we lost power for a few secs and when I started the computer, I started getting bootmgr missing thing. is there a way to boot from or do any recovery using another pc?

Comment by Eduardo - 10 December 2008 @ 13:25 Reply

Jose Plunktt, great job, you save my day!!!
Tanks so much!!!!

Comment by KrauT - 18 January 2009 @ 18:09 Reply

loaded the vista disc and navigated to the cdrive, uncompressed and rebooted… worked like a charm…. thanks guys

Comment by gsags - 22 January 2009 @ 18:12 Reply

thanks a lot you saved my day kamee

Comment by Tea - 24 January 2009 @ 14:20 Reply

Damn! 4 o’clock in California in the AM and I was stressing!!! Thanks guys this shiz is sickalick. Solved it.

Comment by Laminator888 - 20 February 2009 @ 1:52 Reply

Thanks very much Snakefoot!. I was able to reboot my laptop.
Windows did take a while to restore but it works. I just keep refreshing window explorer to monitor the decompress progress.
Your instruction is pretty good.

“If the above doesn’t solve the problem then boot into WinRE again, but when selecting the Vista-installation, then press “Load Drivers” (Instead of “Next”) and use the mini Windows Explorer to right-click the boot-drive and deselect “Compress this Drive” and choose Apply to sub-folders and files”.

Comment by Marinewife - 10 June 2009 @ 2:30 Reply

HELP!!!!! So..my computer was acting a little cooky (I wasn’t able to do anything that required administrator) so I went and bought the new vista disk…popped it in the cd drive and went through the motions to reinstall it. It got about halfway through and then said it couldnt continue and restarted. When I brought it back up and tried to go through it again, it had wiped my entire computer…drivers included!! Now Im stuck! I downloaded the drivers off my home pc and put them on a harddrive and I dont know what to do from here. My computer just goes to the bootmgr is missing. Please help! I cant go to a computer shop…my husband is military and we are stationed on a tiny island!

Comment by Spitfire - 13 June 2009 @ 2:45 Reply

I had hope that I could fix my comp with your help
First off, I had this problem the day before I have a and athlon 64 x2 processor 4000+, 320 gb hard drive, 1 gb ddr2 dual channel and a nvidia geforce 6150 SE.

I upgraded into a xfx geforce 9800 gt and my power supply from 300 to 620. I installed the game prototype and was playing it without any problem. The next day I tried to play the game but was late for school so I just unplugged the comp. I went back and the comp responded with a black screen and a white movable mouse nothing else.

I went to safe mode with networking and succesfully got in. I couldn’t find any solution so I tried to restore the system not to it’s factory form but a restore that would save my files. It had been 1 hr and it was still at 0% and so I turn the of off.

When I turned it back on I got an error “bootmgr is missing” and to press ctrl + alt + del so I searched for a solution and tried everything in here before. The big problem is that when I click repair computer and go to the section where I select drives, there’s no drives available, which makes the system recovery tools useless. When I do load drivers a brower opens but could not use any driver., I could see my C drive and could see my files in a backup I tried the right click C drive but compress is already unchecked I really need my computer as all my projects, family pics and videos are saved in it.

This problem is been around for too long we need a permanent fix!!
I beg all of you to Please help me!!!!!!

Comment by Spitfire - 13 June 2009 @ 15:17 Reply

If that is the case, is there any way that u can at least save the filed that I have in the C: drive? When I click load drivers I could still see that it made a backup for all of it. It’s 163 GB worth…

Comment by Tired - 17 June 2009 @ 1:07 Reply

Hi,
I bought this HP desktop at a computer store and no recovery disk came with it. Now I keep getting this message: “bootmngr” missing. I don’t have a disk to boot it. Where can I download a boot disk for Vista? Do I just burn it to a CD?
Thanks

Comment by David - 20 June 2009 @ 22:16 Reply

YES! Finally some info that actually helped! I’ve been working on this computer for a while now.. Finally gave up and sent it in to Dell.. What do they do? Send it back in the same freakin condition it left in! So I decided to work on it again, and this was what I needed. Thank you so much for your help Kamee. :D

Comment by Yohan - 21 June 2009 @ 17:51 Reply

Can’t get anything to work, yesterday I needed some hard drive so I looked into compressing my C: drive. It commenced but I looked at the estimated time, and thought it was too long so I canceled, so I go on the rest of my day as usual, then when I finished installing a file, that required a restart,”BOOTMGR is compressed” I have searched around for a solution I had one that I believed would work, but it was the process of creating a new boot file manually, unsuccessful because boot files already existed, I’m currently running Windows Vista Ultimate, have lost the boot disc and key, so I’m using a repair disc from Neosmart Tech.

Any help would be appreciated.

Comment by sun it - 25 June 2009 @ 15:33 Reply

hai, its work well for me thanks lot….

Comment by dtrain - 7 July 2009 @ 3:32 Reply

Comment by Yohan - 21 June 2009 @ 17:51 Reply

Can’t get anything to work, yesterday I needed some hard drive so I looked into compressing my C: drive. It commenced but I looked at the estimated time, and thought it was too long so I canceled, so I go on the rest of my day as usual, then when I finished installing a file, that required a restart,”BOOTMGR is compressed” I have searched around for a solution I had one that I believed would work, but it was the process of creating a new boot file manually, unsuccessful because boot files already existed, I’m currently running Windows Vista Ultimate, have lost the boot disc and key, so I’m using a repair disc from Neosmart Tech.

Any help would be appreciated.

yohan,
i did the exact same thing as you except for the part for the “estimated time”, i was in a rush and had to step out so i just press yes. never the less i’m sure you can do a search for a soft copy of the recovery disk somewhere on the net.

Comment by dtrain - 7 July 2009 @ 3:32 Reply

yohan,
i did the exact same thing as you except for the part for the “estimated time”, i was in a rush and had to step out so i just press yes. never the less i’m sure you can do a search for a soft copy of the recovery disk somewhere on the net.

Comment by dtrain - 8 July 2009 @ 2:32 Reply

thanks kamee & everyone else!! got my sys back running!!!!

Comment by HiHIHIHI - 21 July 2009 @ 18:55 Reply

um guy what should i do if i got my vista preinstalled and i have not dvd but for the 2 recvoery dvd i have.i got a Toshiba and the 2 dvds are parts

Comment by dan6 - 26 August 2009 @ 4:12 Reply

hey i got the problem wit bootmgr is compressed well i have a hp and its origanaly a xp but i put it as vista.. but yea i dont have da dvd thingy for vista .. so if any one can help me with out usin the dvd for vista would help alot..

Comment by juan - 6 October 2009 @ 18:23 Reply

my boot manager is missing but i dont know wat 2 do so its says to put the password but what password kan u email me this please and info to fix my computer thank u

Comment by Bootmgr Compressed - 21 October 2009 @ 14:38 Reply

If you have tried all other suggestions to fixing this and they haven’t worked for you.. Well this will deffinately work 100%

Here’s the answer to fixing this problem:-

http://www.logiccomputerservices.co.uk/computerforum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21&sid=9f28b8cce635e5dedd6bb29efaaf3317

You can thank me later in the forum

Comment by Eric - 23 October 2009 @ 1:45 Reply

Thanks for the info! Found other sites but their instructions weren’t as in-depth. Got my netbook back up and running cuz of your added instructions, Thanks!

Comment by Eric - 23 October 2009 @ 1:45 Reply

By the way, this info also works for Windows 7 too, as I found out the hard way. :)

Comment by YES - 17 November 2009 @ 0:50 Reply

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Comment by Abhishek - 17 November 2009 @ 15:09 Reply

hello, i had vista in c: and Win7 on d:, accidentally i formatted c: now when i power on my laptop it says
BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
when i inserted win7 instalation disc and do a start up repair then my computer boots to win7 but when i restart it it again displays:BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart! pls help me i’m screwd man,

Comment by Mark - 2 December 2009 @ 12:45 Reply

Josh

Worked……. many thanks.

Mark

Comment by Paul - 10 December 2009 @ 13:41 Reply

ok i am using a dual-boot system with win xp on one drive and win 7 on the second drive when i try to boot up on either hard drive it says boot manager is missing if i leave the win 7 dvd in the drive it boots up correctly offering both operating systems so that it is working the way it should how do i reinstall win 7 without this error happening thanks in advance

Comment by Rey Solivers - 12 December 2009 @ 9:40 Reply

I accidentally compressed my drive c. The next time I opened my laptop it says,”bootmgr compressed press ctrl+alt+del to restart”. Yet the same msg appears. I can’t use my VISTA installer because my dvd drive is no longer working just recently.

What will I do?

Thank you for helping me.

Rey

Comment by nag - 27 December 2009 @ 12:56 Reply

i have same problem too,if you got any soln,help meeeeeeeeee

Comment by Asif mistry - 30 December 2009 @ 20:52 Reply

my boot is compressed so please sugess me how can i uncompresssed or set my boot please help me out from this problem and my laptop compaq vista reply me soon as posible…
your strug friend asif

Comment by Janam - 7 January 2010 @ 9:34 Reply

i have a little serious problem here.. i use a MacBook Pro, version 10.5.8 n i seemed to have compressed my Bootmgr n the same problem is og Alt+Ctrl+del is showing. when i press that, there is no response from the computer. its like my keyboard is not working when i m shifting from Mac to Windows.
in this case where Alt+Ctrl+Del is not working, what else can i do to uncompress my bootmgr.
PLz Help..

Comment by Jackie - 18 January 2010 @ 1:29 Reply

PLEASE help, so i accidently checked the “compress hardrive for saved space” or whatever it says on the local disk properties. And when i rebooted my computer it said “BootMgr is compressed. Press ctrl+alt+del to restart”, ive pretty much tried everything on here. My vista installation disk won’t show up either. Help me please :(

Comment by eLHAMiiD_ - 18 January 2010 @ 15:23 Reply

Guys; try to be very simple when giving assistance; not every one understands those rather very fast answers you give.

SOLUTION TO THE “BOOTMGR is compressed press CTRL+ALT+DEL” problem
=====================================

1. INSERT your VISTA DVD in your laptop/PC
2. Power ON your laptop/PC
3. BOOT from VISTA DVD —->make sure your laptop/PC
is set to boot from DVD/CDROM first or when u see the
message that says “PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM
DVD/CD” just hit any key and the next steps will be
automatic
4. Click “INSTALL”
5. Choose “LANGUAGE” of your choice
6. Click “REPAIR”
7. Before you click “NEXT” click on “UPLOAD DRIVERS”
8. in the “OPEN” dialog box that appears on the left side
click “MY COMPUTER” then find your “LOCAL DRIVE C:”
and “RIGHT CLICK IT” then select “PROPERTIES”
9. there are two “CHECK BOXES” on the “C: properties
dialogue box”, so “UNCHECK” the one that says
“COMPRESSED” if its checked
10. hit the “APPLY” button, wait as this takes a less than a
minutes or so depending on your computers
PROCESSOR/RAM, please be patient!!!
11. U can now hit the “OK” button; and VOILA, go have fun

Comment by farhaan - 20 January 2010 @ 14:00 Reply

hi there i tried every trick without any results.then i just clicked the startup repair and it worked.thank God

Comment by Paul Richman - 20 January 2010 @ 17:29 Reply

I have the infamous bootmng is missing crisis. I have the restore disks, both load but unzipping only partially works not achieving the desired result. 2 questions. (1) A new hard disk presumably solves the problem? (2) Is there any other solutions using dos and the content of these joke restore disks? Thanks in anticipation

Comment by ur a genious - 26 January 2010 @ 9:09 Reply

hi,
i tried every option of this page but it was only urs that worked
thanks a lot

Comment by davion king - 28 January 2010 @ 1:23 Reply

the boot mgr is missing message is killing me. i even bought a new hard drive and i still get the same message. ive trid windows7, xp and vista and i still get the same message wat can i do.

Comment by Asim Rana - 11 February 2010 @ 8:21 Reply

Hi, I tried everything but couldn’t get it done at all then I read a comment from farhaan and did the same and it worked. Thank God.

Comment by Andrew - 14 February 2010 @ 21:00 Reply

Have a problem. I was using windows 7 without the key. Did a update and microsoft compressed my bootmanger. I have no windows 7 disk or XP disk to boot from. Everytime i turn on my laptop I get the error message BOOTMGR Compressed. Press Ctl+Alt+Del to restart any suggestions please.

Comment by eddlinux - 16 February 2010 @ 8:05 Reply

I have the same problem when yesterdya try to compressed drive C. I’m using dual boot with Ubuntu, so I’m able to look for solution using it. Gladly, I’ve found this article but I haven’t try it yet.
My suggestion is try Linux live CD in case you don’t have DVD Windows installer that required for this solution, to look for help in the net.

Comment by Juliane - 3 March 2010 @ 15:25 Reply

The fix by eLHAMiiD, also works for windows 7. Thank you for that fix. You’re a lifesaver.

Comment by miki22 - 5 March 2010 @ 20:42 Reply

Hi ,
I have a very similar problem but my recovery drive isn’t compressed , I accidentaly formatted the D:\ drive which is the recovery on my laptop. I am trying to use pc repair with a Windows 7 cd to copy a recovery drive from another computer to copy in the formatted recovery drive on my laptop.Please any suggestions to get the recovery files on my laptop would be greatly appreciated.I tried some recovery programs to find recover the formatted files but it didn’t work at all. Maybe image of another pc ..????PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!