hey everyone, i seem to be posting a lot lately! probably becuase i got too mcuh spare time, which means i try to make my pc work perfectly! ha ! has anyone ever heard of such a thing?!

anyway i will cut to the chase
i have a 250 gb HD (western digital) it is partitioned into:
C = win xp 30gb system files, progs, my docs
d = storgae, downloads, music, inbox/outbox etc should be 200 gb, but almost 100gb are in "bad sectors" so windows has marked as unusable......

im currently looking for good software to "clean" hd and restore the bad sectors! i have been told this is possible (by software alone! wow!) but i wont believe it til i see it

anyway thats a seperate post..... my problem is, any file, once put into D drive cannot be cut and paste. if i cut and paste it to anywhere it is then unopenable! i can copy it to the c drive, then cut n paste etc and use it like normal, but i cant cut n paste! how weird! i extracted some files from d drive to cd, then back to d, and because they were put back on d drive when i copy n paste - bam! they cant be opened. coulkd it be because of the bad secots? (doubt it) or user settings (im signed in as admin),,,,, dont no if its of significane, but wen signed in as normal user i cant access d at all
also,,,, my d is set up to "compress files to save space" eg lots of them are written in blue, not black. i not really lkooked into this, but i doubt thats whats causing the problems??
as you can see its quite annoying as 200 (100) GB of my hd is kinda becoming hard to use..... seeing as i wana use it to store my whole music colection and downloads its very inconventient.
any suggestions, not matter how remote, gratefully recieved
cheers

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Are the files being uncompressed prior to cut & pasting or are they still compressed? Is D: a completely compressed drive or only certain files?

It sounds like there may be permission problems w/ D:, since you can't use it as a normal user. I haven't run into this problem before so I can't say for certain what the problem or cure is.

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im not manually compressing or uncompressing any files,, i just have the little box ticked that says "compress drive to save space" or along those lines./ right click>properties of a drive n you will see. surely this is not the culprit (though i never really used this function b4!)

PS thansk for quick response!

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Honestly I've never used this function either, so I don't know for certain how it works. If the drive is compressed, or even the individual files, by the OS, I would think it would decompress them prior to manipulating them. If not, then some of your errors could be caused by trying to edit a compressed file, theoritically. I mean, if the computer is trying to mess w/ data in a compressed form, then the edit could be "crashing" because the data isn't in form it's used to.

Now, that's just a guess. Right now the only other thing I can think of is a permissions issue, especially since you have better luck while Admin. Does it make a difference if you remove the "compress drive" tick mark?

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yea im thinking of "unticking" it,,,, just not sure if you can do that after its been ticked, eg is it ok to do it while running windows, will it mess drive up? i formatted it, then ticked it, now i have data on it, so hoping that if i untick it i dont have to format it again.,wil go do some research,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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info from microsoft:

NTFS Compression
NTFS compression is available on volumes that use the NTFS file system, and NTFS compression has the following features and limitations:
• You can use NTFS compression to compress individual files and folders, as well as an entire NTFS volume.
• You can compress a folder without compressing its contents.
• You can work with NTFS-compressed files without decompressing them, because they are decompressed and recompressed without user intervention.
• You can display NTFS-compressed file and folder names in a different color to make them easier to identify.
• You may notice a decrease in performance when you work with NTFS-compressed files. When you open a compressed file, Windows automatically decompresses it for you, and when you close the file, Windows compresses it again. This process may decrease your computer performance.
• NTFS-compressed files and folders only remain compressed while they are stored on an NTFS Volume.
• You cannot encrypt an NTFS-compressed file.


so it would seem the only problem i might occur is slow performance???!!
i might backup[ my work then mess about with the drive..............)eg untick and retick etc etc)

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Actually if it's already compressed, then you should notice a speed increase because the computer won't have the overhead of compression/decompression anymore. But definitely backup your important data.

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