Compressed C: drive...uncompressing?

GBY · 23 Nov 2006 at 19:47

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

GBY · 23 Nov 2006 at 22:17

Urgent Help Required!

Hi guys,

I'm sorry to post in here but I (well, a friend of mine) have quite a big problem with the computer and I really need to find out what can be done.

I've already posted up in the Hard Drive forum but I wasn't sure if the majority of people who may know how to help are looking in there or not.

My friend's housemate did a C: compression without really knowing what to do, this was cancelled and she's not able to access a lot of her work or open apps.

She works from home and has tight deadlines due imminently - she's a writer/author - so this needs to be sorted out ASAP.

The thread in question is here. Again, I'm sorry for duplicate posting but we really need to get this sorted out tonight ideally as there's a lot of work she needs to get sorted out.

Edited to add: She's running XP.

Thanks in advance,
Graham

GBY · 23 Nov 2006 at 22:34

Gaverick said:
sounds pretty serious, i don't think you can easily and quickly recover from it

I was fearing this

I was hoping it would just be a case of uncompressing somehow.

Kerplunk said:
System restore?

She's tried that to no avail unfortunately

I'm assuming that's because the system technically hasn't changed, it's just been compressed.

GBY · 23 Nov 2006 at 22:34

Freeman said:
Have a look at this program, see if that helps.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...snum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=erd+commander&spell=1

Thanks very much, I'll pass it on and hope it works

GBY · 23 Nov 2006 at 22:39

Freeman said:
Please read my edit, sorry.

>.<

I don't think it will work for your problem.

Ah. She can boot up the PC but I think it's the programs that aren't working. Everything she does tells her she needs a disk - Excel etc. So it's the programs that aren't letting her access the files. I'll try and find out more info when she gets in (she's popped out for a bit).

I don't know if it's just a case of re-installing all the programs but she tried a system restore which didn't work

GBY · 23 Nov 2006 at 23:14

I'm hoping she gets in soon so I can answer your questions properly.

Thanks M0KUJ1N for looking at that, that's...interesting and baffling. I'll try and get some more info for you guys as soon as I can.

Thanks all very much!!

GBY · 23 Nov 2006 at 23:14

Gaverick said:
If she started to compress but then stopped half way through though, it could have corrupted the files altogether

That's what I thought when she first told me.

GBY · 23 Nov 2006 at 23:51

i know nothing said:
If the files are there on the drive I would back them up in their current state before buggering about with them.

I'll get her to send me the files first

GBY · 24 Nov 2006 at 00:07

Her brother-in-law happened to call up and had a bit of information on this. Gave her a run code and all seems to working okay. They've cleared up some stuff and run some installation files...it's just excel which is playing up but she's re-installing that next week

Thanks everso much everyone!!

All the best,
Graham