Hp desktop crash

camous · #1 Dec 28, 2007, 10:50 PM

My HP desktop, running Windows XP crashed. I am getting the following error message Error: NTLDR is compressed. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart
WHen I press C_A_D, it just goes to the error message again.... and cycles like that.

I have gone to the HP website and read the instructions, but don't have the recovery disks. The instructions on the second half of the page don;t seem to work.... any ideas??

THX

buster1104 · Dec 29, 2007, 04:46 AM

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Originally Posted by camous

My HP desktop, running Windows XP crashed. I am getting the following error message Error: NTLDR is compressed. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart
WHen I press C_A_D, it just goes to the error message again.... and cycles like that.

I have gone to the HP website and read the instructions, but don't have the recovery disks. The instructions on the second half of the page don;t seem to work.... any ideas??

THX

Insert your XP disk and do a system recovery?

camous · Dec 29, 2007, 10:15 AM

But I DOn't have the XP disk....Hp's don't come with one. They have it on a partition and you make about a dozen recivery disks- which have been long-since scattered. I got past that part... now it hangs up on the start-ip right after the finish button....

Marianne

buster1104 · Dec 29, 2007, 01:52 PM

can you load it in safe mode?



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