BOOTMGR compressed. Cannot boot into Vista.

Hi Folks,

I did a stupid thing yday. I tried compressing my C drive which hosts Vista and boot files. When i rebooted, I get this message.

Bootmgr is compressed . Press Ctr - Alt - Del to restart.


I have searched forums and found out that i need to follow this procedure below:
expand bootmgr temp
attrib bootmgr -s -r -h
del bootmgr
ren temp bootmgr
attrib bootmgr -a +s +r +h

But the same message pops up. Please if you know.. Please tell me how i can resolve this.

I have tried bootrec /Fixmbr.. which wiped out Grub for Ubuntu. Now i'm stuck without any hope.

 

Ok.. i guess nobody knows in NBR for sure!! Thanks.

 

i personally admitted that i would not "know" for sure but ...
. just one hour posting for such a complicated and stupid (as u confirmed in ur OP) issue and u were quick to "insult" ("nobody knows in NBR for sure") the forum users in general?

did it occur to u that the peoples that "know" and could fix ur (stupid) problem are not yet up?

cheers ...

 

well, back to real purpose of what forum is all about (queries and inputs and no insulting) - here my 2 cents
. stick the vista cd/dvd in and boot from the cd/dvd,
. waiting (im)patiently for the installer to do whatever what it was meant to do
. choose the repair option
. at the dialog box, choose the drive of the compressed windows-> next
. -> Startup Repair.
. -> Load drive et voila, u r inside the "compressed” drive
. -> uncompress the file in question, exit, reboot and cross the fingers

cheers ...

 

Well your solution for my "stupid issue" didnt work. Thanks anyways. I'll look for other alternatives.

Case closed.

 

And thread closed. Instant gratification doesn't work on forums where messages come in hours or days later, and quite frankly with that kind of attitude you'll have a hard time finding someone willing to spend the time to help you.