NTLDR Error and other problems

[erikp5]

I recently had to restore my harddrive using HP's system recovery (that's partitioned on the drive) and I came up with the dreaded

NTLDR is compressed
Press ctrl + alt + del

Error...

I tried using the bootmaster plus from

http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz/appnote6.html

to no avail. After copying the files and going onto the next step (after pressing 1: Boot DOS) I get more errors reading:

Please enter the correct location (for example C:\COMMAND.COM):
Bad or missing the Command Interpreter: 2 -

I'm still stuck and I don't want to have to do a clean wipe because I have gigs of pictures and documents that are held dear to my heart.

Please, let me know what can be done.

 

[ski]

Check this link for a possible solution. This one explains why that message appeared, the one in the left side of the screen labeled 'Repairing the MBR' explains how to fix it:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_evwd.asp

 

[ski]

Sorry, the other link is labeled 'Restoring the MBR'.