fixing BOOT.MBR in Compressed Windows 7
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:33 pm
recently I've gone to clean my os, while doing so i stupidly compressed the boot.mbr, this in effect disabled the booting of the operating system which is windows 7, on every boot i would get a error like this BOOT.MBR is compressed , press CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart but nothing else is provided to help break this issue down,
while looking online on another laptop, found the fix
you will need to boot into command prompt from your CD such as windows 7, it provides through the fix my computer,
ok so what now ? when your in cmd, type line by line
its really stupid that the CD is not able to simply check if the boot.mbr is compressed or not. clicking on fix my computer on the windows 7 CD does not detect anything wrong with the system.
while looking online on another laptop, found the fix
you will need to boot into command prompt from your CD such as windows 7, it provides through the fix my computer,
ok so what now ? when your in cmd, type line by line
and that's about it, next time you reboot, you should see its working normally because the MBR has been rebuilttype in bootrec /FixMbr
then type in bootrec /fixboot
then type in bootrec /rebuildbcd
then type in exit
restart your coputer
its really stupid that the CD is not able to simply check if the boot.mbr is compressed or not. clicking on fix my computer on the windows 7 CD does not detect anything wrong with the system.