NTLDR is Compressed - I have tried recovery solution

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Jed Elkins

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I'm trying to repair a friend's PC after he reformatted and now it won't start. It says "NTLDR is Compressed. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to Restart"

I've been looking at solutions for this problem on this forum and all of the solutions include going to recovery mode and getting to a command prompt. When I enter recovery mode there is no option for a command prompt and it doesn't ask for a password. It only has an option for a reformat. I did the reformat, but I still have the Compressed NTLDR problem. How can I get to a command prompt to do the fix?
 
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hang-the-9
In the setup, delete the partition, create a new one, should work then. Keep in mind you formatting the drive wiped out all your data so hopefully you have backups made.
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Forgive my ignorance, but how would I go about that? Is that program bootable from a USB flash drive or something? Thanks
 
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Hi, thanks for your reply! There is no options for deleting the partition. There is only the option to do a full system restore (destructive) or full system restore (with backup) or quit. The 1st two choices starts a reformat and re-installation of windows. (after which I get the original error again) Quitting makes it restart (which takes me back to the original error) This is why I can't get anywhere with any of these solutions. If I could get to some options - ANY options - then I could fix this probably on my own... could anyone help soon? I'm supposed to have this done today haha!. Idk if it's going to happen... I appreciate all your help. :)
 
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I found a bootable ISO for GPartEd. Going to try that - thanks
 
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If you are using a restore disk from the vendor and not the basic Windows setup disk, you may need to wipe the partition using this utility. If you use a regular Windows setup disk, you'd have an option to delete the partition before installing.
 
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