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XP not opening c drive

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by jam4him

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I have looked at a system which will not boot after a full recovery attemp...it's an HP XT963
PC,supposedly running winxp-home.

"nldr is compressed
press control-alt-del to restart" is the error message we're getting,however the system will notreboot after a control-alt-delete...

any takers?

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by Member 36317532

Greetings

I had a similar problem. Turned out that a faullty install was the reason. Did you have any problems during the install ie, Unable to copy file, or similar. I have noticed that XP is very temprimental with CD Roms especially older ones,it seems to want to read faster than the CD Rom can.
Unless you have critical data on the PC I would suggest a fresh install.

Good Luck
AndyN

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