Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> It's been a long time since I saw a compressed windows "drive", but
> if I remember right, it would call the primary partition D: and
> C: is a virtual partition contained in a hidden file in D:.
> 
> So, there probably is only one partition.  Try running fdisk.

Ditto been a long time, ditto I think C is inside a file in D.

Possible strategy:  is it possible to hook another physical
disk up to this system?  Then you could unload a bunch of
the C drive contents onto it while you get a foothold.
You'd do this under Windows, clean out the compressed
volume, and then see where you stood.

The main operating partition shouldn't be compressed.
That would be dog slow.

But an implication of this is that there's not all that
available space on the D drive -- it's probably filled up
with the C volume.  If you look at that one partition with
Linux, as a FAT or NTFS volume, how much free space does
it see?

I hope this is not an ignorant rant, but consider that
as a possibility.  ;-)

Good luck,

Vic

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