hello, I was running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on a Gygabyte board and tried to activate Windows with Daz's loader v 1.7.7. The loader showed that the activation had been successful and then restarted windows. When the computer looks for the boot partition it shows a message saying "YLCFV is compressed ; Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". I have tried using system restore to no avail. The same message reappears. I had been previously running Win7 Ultimate x32 and Daz's loader had worked. I had recently re-imaged my computer to run Win7 x64. Re-installing Windows is my last resort since it would take too much time to re-install all the apps and updates. Any help to solve the problem is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Sounds like you got drive compression enabled, it really needs to be disabled for things to work as they should. Booting from your Windows 7 disk and selecting command prompt under the recovery options and issuing the command "bootsect.exe /nt60 SYS" should fix things, although you won't be activated.
@Daz Correct me if I'm wrong here Daz, but I am guessing the YLCFV is the randomized name for the loader? If that is the case, then do you think the following may work? @mario2390 Can you boot into the recovery console off of the win7 disk? if you can, try going to the command line option and typing: cd\ attrib -c YLCFV exit It should reboot, and that may fix the issue. Not 100% sure, but it has worked for me in the past with winXP.
Setting the attrib *might* work as long as then Windows doesn't complain that bootmgr is also compressed The random name you have there will be the loader which is trying to load, but that needs to chainload Windows and if it can chainload a compressed bootmgr file I'm not sure...
It may work. Worst case scenario it won't. It's a good experience trying things out rather than wait for a reply.
Thank you all for your help. After using the command given by Daz, Windows booted normally. However, Windows also showed a message at the bottom of the screen letting me know that the copy was not genuine. On regards to the compression issue, my system drive wasn't using the compression settings; it was my second, back up hard drive. The bios recognizes it as the master drive since it's on the only IDE port and my system drive is on the SATA port. However, I installed Windows on the SATA HD but I guess the MBR was written on the IDE drive which was using compression settings. I will re-install Windows just to save me the headache of disabling the IDE drive, re-installing the MBR, and re-activating Windows after being caught as a non-genuine copy. I truly appreciate the help given.
Try the following : 1) Boot the Windows 7 DVD 2) Select repair and then Command Promt 3) Type this (where C:\ is the drive containing the bootmanager/loader) : Code: attrib -s -r -h c:\YLCFV attrib -s -r -h c:\bootmgr attrib -s -r -h c:\BOOT compact /u c:\YLCFV compact /u c:\bootmgr C: CD \ CD BOOT compact /u /s *.* 4) Reboot and tell me if it works (Theses step will allow you to un-compress bootable files needed by Windows)
Hi AnarethoS. I tried this method but get that 'compact' is not an internal command. Also tried substituting 'compress' and that didnt work either. Might you have another suggestion? Thanks
Try using attrib -c instead of compact, though I am not sure why compact is not working. Is that command present in the win7 command shell? I'm not at a win7 machine right now to check.