vista compressed bootmgr

[JIMBO0940]

after compressing my c drive vista on reboot said bootmgr is compressed

so far i tried: expand bootmgr temp (which it accepted as being carried out)

attrib boot mgr -s -r -h

del boot mgr

ren temp bootmgr

attrib bootmgr -a +s +r +h

exit

this resulted in the same message on reboot

i also tried : compact /u /s c:\*.*

it said that it did not recognise "compact"

i also told vista to repait itself it said it had repaired the bootmgr but it did not uncompress it

i have now run kill disk because even a reinstall would not rectify it it is now working in its normal uncompressed state but i would still like to know why these so called fixes did not work!

[Wilhelmus]

I had same problem few months ago.

Had to use XP's recovery console to uncompress the boot loader.

attrib -c bootmgr