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Scandisk problems
Name: Pavitar Singh Date: November 29, 1999 at 03:25:47 Pacific
Comment:
I have recently used scandisk to compress my hard drive and now I can't uncompress my hard drive. Scan disk says that my c:drive is a boot drive and cannot be deleted or formatted and the new h: drive is not compressed.
Name: Charles Date: November 30, 1999 at 19:59:18 Pacific
Reply:
#1 rule - Never compress drives in the first place. I had a stack dump on my old computer and it never woke up! New hard drives are so cheap now, you might as well get a new one, the techs at the computer repair place will transfer your data to the new one for free.
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