Hi everyone,

In 1995, I bought a Compaq Presario 7180, which then
had 8MB RAM and a 1.2 gig hard drive with windows 95
installed.  In 1997, we compressed the hard drive for
more disk space.  It left our C: drive with 500 mb of
space and a new H: drive with around 2.3 gigs.  We
also upgraded the RAM to 40MB.

Last year we bought a 10.1 gig hard drive.  We moved
as much as we could from the C: and H: drives unto the
four newer drives, D:, E:, F:, and G:.  Now, we have
very little free space on the C: drive, about 50 megs.
 When I tried to decompress the C: drive, I received
an error, 'Cannot decompress drive due to errors.  run
scandisk.'  When I run scandisk, no errors are found.
Then I tried to decompress again and the same error
comes up.  I've tried several times to decompress but
it doesn't work. How do we get it to Decompress???

I ran my PC Handyman software to figure out the
problem and got a "Serious Harddrive configuration
error" message too.  I suspect that the guys at Best
Buy who installed the 10.1 gig made a boo boo, but
since I couldn't find the sales receipt they wouldn't
help me!!  Can anyone give a solution to this problem?
 I was once told that upgrading to Win98 would solve
the problem...does this sound right?  Help!

TIA,

Renee King
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