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Old June 29th, 2009, 07:03 PM
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Do NOT Compress Your "C:" Drive!!!!!! Compressed drive "C", not good idea.

Maybe one of you tech computer type of guys/girls can help me out here. On my Dell PC described as my test machine below, I compressed drive "C" to save space. I now know that that is a dumb idea. It saved about 10 gB, but as I should've known, slowed this computer to a crawl. I compressed it from the window you get when you highlight drive C and click on properties.

Big Question: How in the Heck do I uncompress it to it's original state; for three reasons I have been told.

1) It runs awful slow right now, and i have deleted some things and do not need the space.
2) I was told that cloning the Drive in this condition may not work (something to do with overlays).
3)There is a better chance of file corruption, and of course, if data gets loss, than more data will get lost.

So, How in the Heck do I uncompress it to it's original state?

Dale? Roy? Anyone else know how?
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