Boot Error

[ernestocosta]

Hello,

I have a Dell precision 490. Today, when I turned it on it won't boot. It gives me a message of:

"LGHYF is compressed"
"Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart"


Any thoughts of what could it be?

 

[mi1ez]

are you sure it wasn't "ntldr is compressed"?

 

[ernestocosta]

Nop...

This is the exact error

 

[Guest]

According to Dell there isn't an error like that!
Are you 100% sure that that is the exact message?

 

[ernestocosta]

Yes, exactly how it's written above!

 

[Guest]

Just to clarify, you get this whn your OS starts to load up right?
Can you get into SAFE mode?
If you still have the original OS and you got a restore disc perhaps you can try that if not try to run a repair on it.

 

[ernestocosta]

Yes, the "7" screen doesn´t even appears. It's a message (same style as NTLDR) but with LGHYF.

Pretty weird, no?

I don't have the original CD with me but I will try to run a repair on W7, maybe it will work...

 

[Guest]

One more thing you can try. If you can get to the boot menu choose "repair your computer"

 

[ernestocosta]

I cant even get to that screen..

I have the w7 DVD now, I'll try to repair from it

 

[ernestocosta]

nothing... It says that there is nothing wrong with startup

 

[Guest]

Knowing your situation with an "unexisting error" your only option is to do a system restore, but that way you might lose your data.

 

[ernestocosta]

Not even a system restore it let me do..

I had to format it! I had my data on another partition. Thanks anyway

 

[Guest]

Sorry to hear that! In all fairness it was quite an unknown error message