Uncompress drive results

[Vasudhara]

I am having a 80GB harddisk on my computer & lot of things store in it... So i compressed my drive to to save more... Now i have purchased the new hard drive of 160 GB harddisk & now no need to compress it...! Now can anyone tel me how to uncompressed it???

[Eric B]

Compressing an NTFS Volume
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure. To compressing an NTFS volume:

1. Click Start, then click My Computer.
   
   
2. Right-click the volume you want to compress, and then click Properties.
   
   
3. On the General tab, click to select the Compress Volume to save disk space check box, and then click OK.
   
   
4. In Confirm Attribute Changes, click the option you want.

[Raine]

To Uncompress Hard Drive follow the following steps...!

1. It clicks right on the compressed unit and chooses "Properties" of the given options.
   
   
2. Clicks in the square located next to the line of text; "To compress content to save space in disc".This will remove the check mark in the box.
   
   
3. Then Apply it to it.
   
   
4. Choosing the option what you want to do. Click "OK." Compression will be removed from the drive.

[Macarenas]

Windows hard drive compression service is used to compress the data on the disc and generate more space. A compress drive takes up more time to read as compare to the regular one. You can simply compress and de compress by reading the above post. A routine use of this thing uses up lot of memory and put tremendous pressure on your hard disk. Just run disk clean up regularly and disk defragmentation.