Compressed C-drive...uncompressing?!

[Graham.J]

A friend of mine has come back to find her housemate has compressed the c-drive when trying to free up some memory.

Unfortunately she works from home and has a lot of work deadlines coming up...and she can't open any of her files or programs.

Is there any way this can be sorted and everything recovered?

Thanks in advance,
Graham

Edited by Graham.J on Thursday 23 November 19:57

[Rednut05]

Compressed the C drive. Guessing it's the main drive. Seems a bit extreme as hard drives cost penny's these days.

What have they compressed it with?

Try;
My computer,
Right click the hard drive that comes up (C:),
Properties,
Then see if 'Compress drive to save space' is clicked.

If so unclick it, it'll take a wee while to uncompress it all but that's my 2 pence.

[Graham.J]

Thanks, I'll pass it on

[GreenV8S]

Compressing shouldn't make any difference to the ability to access files. Perhaps the file ownership/protections were changed at the same time, or the 'friend' messed up something else while they were messing around? Can you create/read any new files? If you're experimenting with compression settings etc, only use one file for testing because it'll take forever to change the whole drive.

[Graham.J]

Her brother-in-law has given her a run code to use and taken her through some installation files which seems to have sorted the problem.

Excel seems to be playing up but she's re-installing that next week

Thanks for the help

Edited by Graham.J on Friday 24th November 00:08