james_k1988
Posts: 160 +0
Hey there,
I recently discovered that compressing your files using the NTFS file compression isnt the best idea, particulary for gaming. Ive always done this and not thought anything of it but after learning that its not that good an idea, i decided to try and uncompress the files. Spec in in my Sig.
its mainly the 160g this is aimed at. It has 2 partitions
c: 129gb
e: 20gb
e: decompressed no problem, but i am having major problems after i attempted c. When i started it i forgot how long it took, so i canceled it after it got a short way into it. After all it was to uncompress 100gb of data. This left some files compressed and some uncompressed. THe first problem i noticed was MSN messenger stopped working, and gave a error message similiar to:
"error occured. The Paremeter's are incorrect"
But i reinstall fixed that and its going again. But now i having havoc with the rest of my computer. (i did attempt to compress it all again but i wasnt sure if that would help so i canceled it). Explorer keeps crashing,Firefox is crashing, everything is crashing, games especially. I have reinstalled graphic card drivers to try and help as well but to no avail. Today when i booted my pc i recieved constant "automatic update has encountered a problem and needs to close" errors, must have clicked dont send 50 times before it stopped. (Note i do not use automatic updates, the program just decided to crash itself, i never attempted to use it. Unles i done it by accident by i doubt it). When things do crash though they all give a similar message.
"Whatever program Has encountered a problems and needs to close".
Always the same.
Firefox was the first major culprit, one day i couldnt surf for more than 10 seconds before it gave me these messages. Although i Uncompressed the mozilla folder (just to test) and it still does it, but only every so often (usually doesnt at all unless i try to do something, eg watch a video on Google video, or even youtube.com
I dont have any spy/adware and my hijackthis log is clean. AVG says the pc is fine and i defrag nearly every day. I would like a solution though that wouldnt mean a format, this was my first thought but i have alot of data to back up, and itll take forever. So i would prefer to not have to format, although if you think its the only way then what must be done, be done.
I personally think i may have to compress it all again, as some system files may be different size's not (that there uncompressed) and its causing problems. But thats just my theroy and i thought it would be best to check with you guys before i mess it up more
I recently discovered that compressing your files using the NTFS file compression isnt the best idea, particulary for gaming. Ive always done this and not thought anything of it but after learning that its not that good an idea, i decided to try and uncompress the files. Spec in in my Sig.
its mainly the 160g this is aimed at. It has 2 partitions
c: 129gb
e: 20gb
e: decompressed no problem, but i am having major problems after i attempted c. When i started it i forgot how long it took, so i canceled it after it got a short way into it. After all it was to uncompress 100gb of data. This left some files compressed and some uncompressed. THe first problem i noticed was MSN messenger stopped working, and gave a error message similiar to:
"error occured. The Paremeter's are incorrect"
But i reinstall fixed that and its going again. But now i having havoc with the rest of my computer. (i did attempt to compress it all again but i wasnt sure if that would help so i canceled it). Explorer keeps crashing,Firefox is crashing, everything is crashing, games especially. I have reinstalled graphic card drivers to try and help as well but to no avail. Today when i booted my pc i recieved constant "automatic update has encountered a problem and needs to close" errors, must have clicked dont send 50 times before it stopped. (Note i do not use automatic updates, the program just decided to crash itself, i never attempted to use it. Unles i done it by accident by i doubt it). When things do crash though they all give a similar message.
"Whatever program Has encountered a problems and needs to close".
Always the same.
Firefox was the first major culprit, one day i couldnt surf for more than 10 seconds before it gave me these messages. Although i Uncompressed the mozilla folder (just to test) and it still does it, but only every so often (usually doesnt at all unless i try to do something, eg watch a video on Google video, or even youtube.com
I dont have any spy/adware and my hijackthis log is clean. AVG says the pc is fine and i defrag nearly every day. I would like a solution though that wouldnt mean a format, this was my first thought but i have alot of data to back up, and itll take forever. So i would prefer to not have to format, although if you think its the only way then what must be done, be done.
I personally think i may have to compress it all again, as some system files may be different size's not (that there uncompressed) and its causing problems. But thats just my theroy and i thought it would be best to check with you guys before i mess it up more