JSI Tip 4812. The Automatic Recovery screen is NOT displayed if Bootstat.dat is compressed?

When you restart after a failed start attempt, Windows XP does not display the Automatic Recovery screen if you used NTFS compression to compress %Windir%Bootstat.dat.

NTLDR can NOT write the Automatic Recovery flags to a compressed Bootstat.dat file.

To fix the problem:

1. Right-click the Bootstat.dat file and press Properties.

2. Press Advanced.

3. Clear the Compress contents to save disk space box and press OK.

4. Press Apply and OK.

NOTE: When the computer is restarted after a failed startup, the Automatic Recovery screen which contains:

We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully.
A recent hardware or software change might have caused this.

The Windows Advanced Options menu includes:

Safe Mode Safe Mode with Networking Safe Mode with Command Prompt Last Known Good Configuration Start Windows Normally