NTFS compression freezes computer, causes boot err

[silverwolf0]

When I first got emule, I didn't know anything about sparse files and I opted to check preview chunks so that I can see the files I download. Now my temp file is around 25GB (I have a 40GB hd on my laptop) and I've only downloaded probably only 1GB of that, the rest is empty space inbetween the start and end of the file. I have tried compressing the folder but everytime I do it, it freezes after about a minute of trying to compress and then the dialog says "not responding". I've tried doing it in safe mode also and it froze my pc, which caused me to do a cold boot and gave me a unmountable_boot_volume blue screen at startup which I fixed with chkdsk. Now I still am in need of disk space but don't know the best way to go about it. I am wary of trying to compress it again. Probably my last resort that I know of is to use winrar and determine which part files I am not immediately downloading and compressing those, which is definitely very inefficient. So how can I use NTFS comopression correctly without it freezing?

[Krell]

STOP

Stop right there

STOP what youre doing

If you ever want to see that OS and data again, CEASE with the ^%$#@! compression!

Who on earth told you that was a good idea? Kick em in the nuts.

At this point, you have 25Gb of shit, unless you finish the files, its all worthless.

If I were you, I would uninstall Emule, get rid of any volumes associated with it, re run chkdsk and then defrag.

IF you can get all that under control and operate normally, then go back to P2P.

PS: buy a removable 40gb USB drive and make 2 partitions to do your P2P on.


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[Pirate_RRRRRR_IIIIII]

In the future dont download so much at once.

[DigitalJunkie]

1. After you finished downloading, back them up to blank CD or DVD disks so you can still have storage room on your hard disk. Do not wait until your hard disk is completely filled, you need at least 15% free storage space to run defrag. & keep you system running smooth!

2. Spend a little & get yourself another drive. Setup your p2p program to transfer the file(s) after it finished downloading to the new drive! Transfer will keep your new drive from fragmented plus additional storage!!!

[silverwolf0]

Wow its not the end of the world is it? :icon_sunn I read old emule posts from the official emule board about compressing drives so I assumed it was safe. I went the other route and used SparseTest with a batch file to convert all my files into sparse. It works well and I can still downloaded with emule. while having 20+ more gigs on my hard drive, basically freeing half of it. Thanks for all the Apocalyptic replies. :icon_king

[Theinfamousone]

Umm, yeah, seriously, like Krell said, hard drives are not that expensive, just buy a bigger one. Here's an extrenal 80 gig for $45. If it were me, I'd go with the 750 gig, but that's because I go big or go home. I don't want to have to keep buying more hard drives as I have more demand for space.

http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Kensington_33214_Silver_Series_External_80GB_Ha rd_Drive,__7548559/search=hard+drive

[MP3Pr0]

Use Event Viewer in the Administrative Tools folder to see if any disk-related problems are noted under the System log. Then run CHKDSK on the drive. (Start Menu -> Run -> cmd.exe and enter CHKDSK /? for details). I don't believe defragging will have any effect, but it shouldn't hurt. In eMule, go into the Options -> Extended and make sure "Safe .met/.dat file writing" is "Always". Also, you might want to use the "Create new part files as 'sparse'" feature in eMule's Extended options which should save only the downloaded data instead of allocating such huge amounts of space. (Though I've never tried it myself - I use Windows XP NTFS disk compression with no problems.)

[Krell]

I once typed out a well defended exhortation on the ills of drive compression, only to be a victim of the ills of IE . . . so it didn't get posted.

So . . . the next 40g drive I could lay my hands on, I set the "enable drive compression" attribute . . . let the good times roll.

Since the crux of the matter seems to be "compression is NOT good for frequently modified files" , I needed to frequently modify some files.

What better way than to move many gigs of porn pics in their folders to the drive, then start renaming them en mass, and moving them to different directories.

*poofysheeseballs*

It was bad enough that compression slowed the drive down a bit, but when I moved a Hegre folder with 1,788 files in 22 folders that I had just meticulously renamed UP one directory and it disappeared in to vapor . . well . . Krell was NOT happy!

Not happy, not one M&^%$#@! bit!

So . . I didnt waste a moment, I rebooted to my MiniPE XT disk, and started using recovery programs. I tried a few and some couldnt see the USB drives etc etc

Final Data Pro got the job done, and I recovered both jpg and mpg files perfectly to my C: drive, then copied them back to the drive with compression.

I deselected file compression, and the drive is more quiet.

So that's that . . now, back to renaming the other 41.2 GB (44,344,885,248 bytes) . . . 216,959 files in 6,615 folders.