[graisbeck]

My nephew has a Acer Aspire 5315 laptop running Vista Home (either basic or premium).

Everytime I try to boot it, the message BOOTMGR is compressed shows. I've tried to bring up the safe mode options but all I get is the same message about the BOOTMGR being compressed.
I can get into the BIOS screen and I've tried to change the "boot from" order but the CD-rom drive is not listed, the only thing which is close to it is USB-CDROM, and I have also tried to boot from recovery disk but that didnt work either.

Any ideas please?

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Hi graisbeck,

Do you remember compressing your hard drive?

Do you have a Vista DVD? If so, the situation is easily fixed:

• 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.

Let me know how it goes for you

Cheers,
Deon

[Deon]

Hi graisbeck,

Do you remember compressing your hard drive?

Do you have a Vista DVD? If so, the situation is easily fixed:

• 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.

Let me know how it goes for you

Cheers,
Deon

[graisbeck]

I can get into the BIOS screen and I've tried to change the "boot from" order but the CD-rom drive is not listed, the only thing which is close to it is USB-CDROM, and I have also tried to boot from recovery disk but that didnt work either.

I didn't compress the drive but it did have malware problems and I reinstalled vista after deleting the files found by Malwarebytes. When the laptop was rebooted that's when the error message started to show.

[Deon]

Okay, have you tried the method I included above?

Most people report this to work with this problem.

Remember, you don't actually have to complete a Repair install, just use the disc to get to that 'Load Drivers' area.


Deon

[graisbeck]

Deon, thanks for your help.

I have tried booting from Vista DVD and also from a recovery disk but neither worked. As I mentioned previously the dvd/cd drive is not even showing in the bios or boot menu. I can hear the disk spinning in the drive but all that happens is that the BOOTMGR is compressed message comes up.