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For a while I have had this computer that i didnt care for anymore because you couldnt do anything on it at all. When you start it up, it will go to a black and at the top left corner it would say.."The NTLD is compressed, press Control, Alt, Delete to restart." So I would press control, alt, delete and it would restart and go back to the same screen saying the same thing. Im not even sure its fixable. I was just wondering if anyone had any clue what might be wrong with it. THANKS
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Hey Nickmyster,

Do you have a floppy drive in that PC? Also do you have another PC with the same operating system that also has a floppy drive where we could make a boot disk from?


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A longer winded, but definate fix way to do it, is to do a repair install. It reinstalls WinXP without removing the old installation.

Boot from the XP CD and go through the install setup program, go past the recovery console options and the setup "should" find your windows installation. It will then give you the option to repair or reinstall Windows, choose to REPAIR.

It will then go through a full repair install which will restore all major files including your NTLDR. It does take about as long as a fresh install but well worth the hassle if your installation is screwed.

Just make sure you choose to REPAIR and not reinstall, otherwise you will end up with two installs of Windows on the same drive, and things get messy!

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Originally Posted by Wolfeymole
A longer winded, but definate fix way to do it, is to do a repair install. It reinstalls WinXP without removing the old installation.

Boot from the XP CD and go through the install setup program, go past the recovery console options and the setup "should" find your windows installation. It will then give you the option to repair or reinstall Windows, choose to REPAIR.

It will then go through a full repair install which will restore all major files including your NTLDR. It does take about as long as a fresh install but well worth the hassle if your installation is screwed.

Just make sure you choose to REPAIR and not reinstall, otherwise you will end up with two installs of Windows on the same drive, and things get messy!

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Hmmm nice idea , but things could get messy and take even longer to fix, like Madmonkey has said if he's got a Floppy disc drive it should be pretty simple .


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You have a point except I can't see the reasoning behind creating 6 XP floppy boot disks when the boot files are already on the cd.


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6 Floppies? You only need 1 to create a bootdisk? Where did 6 come from?


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This is the XP forum is it not?
Microsoft says 6 disks here: How to obtain Windows XP Setup boot disks


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