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by jparks5

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Here's a tough one. One of my clients with disk compression installed on his Win95 machine tried to uncompress his C: drive, but stopped half way, leaving him with half of his data compressed, and half uncompressed. Is there any way to either recompress the drive, or uncompress it the entire way so that the data in the compressed drive can be retrieved? I've temporarily set him up with a new windows installation in another partition, but told him not to touch the partly-compressed/uncompressed drive. Any answers would be greatly appreciated!!!

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by spn

I know that this is not the full answer you need but ,it's possable that the original HDD is faulty and has bad sectors/faulty internal mech.

I suggest you try ghost the HDD first so you have a copy you can "play" with.then try run a disk scan with system agent.

I personal have never used disk comprestion as I dislike the performance trade offs.

I'll ask a round and see if any one has any ideas ok

No Promise but i try get more info 4 u

SPiNner

by mckaytech

I believe that if the uncompression utility is re-started, it should run to completion.
Especially if the process was interrupted by the user and it shut down normally.

But it's one of those situations where the line between being a hero and being a chump is very, very thin.

I like the idea of Ghosting the drive and working with a copy but that, of course, assumes you have an available workstation you can use.

Or, depending on the value of the data, I feel fairly confident that a professional data recovery specialist would have the tools to recover the data. But such services and/or tools carry a fairly
significant price and most people, in my experience, decide it's not worthwhile.

paul

by m. lacombe

Make sure you have plenty of space on the C drive open, then execute the uncompress again. I had an issue with one of my directors that did the same thing. After running uncompress a few times it finally finished it, but there were still directoriesand files that were corrupted. I guess the obvious is, next time tell the client not to mess with disk compression utilities, there's no guarantee's whether they'll work correctly or not.

by m. lacombe

Make sure you have plenty of space on the C drive open, then execute the uncompress again. I had an issue with one of my directors that did the same thing. After running uncompress a few times it finally finished it, but there were still directoriesand files that were corrupted. I guess the obvious is, next time tell the client not to mess with disk compression utilities, there's no guarantee's whether they'll work correctly or not.

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