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Thread ID: 16256	2002-03-03 11:05:00	Compressed hard disk question	Guest (0)	Press F1

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37714	2002-03-03 11:05:00	Hello all, I have had an older computer returned to me. The last user has compressed the hard drive and therefore created an host drive (h:) for the compressed C: drive. What I would like to do is remove all this and return the hard drive back to just one partition and reformat that. Then I'll reinstall the operating system and start again afresh. How do I get it back to just one drive again? Thank you in advance for any assistance or help. It is an IBM P75. 32MB Ram. 550MB HHD. Win98se.	Guest (0)
37715	2002-03-03 18:45:00	Use your 98 startup disk to get to the dos prompt, and run 'fdisk'. In the options just set it to one primary partition, after deleting other partitions. Don't forget to format that partition after you reboot.	Guest (0)
37716	2002-03-04 02:12:00	The compressed drive is just a really big file on your hard drive. Formatting the host drive from dos (which is acutally your C drive) will wipe everything. Hit F8 when your system says starting windows 95, and select Step by step confirmation. Say no to everything (esp, drvspace and doublespace). Typing DIR should show you the large file containing your compressed drive. Then run FORMAT C: /S. to wipe the drive.	Guest (0)
37717	2002-03-04 09:30:00	Drivespace has an 'uncompress' option which you should be able to use and keep the disc contents intact provided that there is room on your disc to expand all the compressed files if you want them. Dump anything you don't want before decompressing.	Guest (0)
37718	2002-03-05 04:48:00	The problem usually is that the disk usage has expanded to fill the available disk. I'v never managed to uncompress a disk. Not even a 'big' one like 500MB. The 20MB and 40MB drives were big in their time too. But compression made all the difference. The problem was that a corrupted disk meant that you lost the lot.	Guest (0)
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