I begun compressing, but a little bit through i finished an update, and because it wasn't responsive I clicked x, it closed explorer.exe, so I had to go to taskmanager and shutdown.

No when I boot it says:

MAFUP is compressed:

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart

P.S. It is dual booted with Win 7

Do not reply - problem solved - no input required - thank you!

Do not reply - problem solved - no input required - thank you!

texeon, while I am glad you were able to resolve your problem yourself, and I appreciate you coming back in with a follow up to say it was fixed, but note forums are a two-way process where everyone has an opportunity to learn. But that can't happen when you come back and say simply, "problem solved".

How about taking a moment and give back a bit by telling others what was wrong and what you did to resolve it so others have an opportunity to learn from your experiences?

Good point, here is what i did:

I had tried to compress my hard drive, thinking it would benefit me. My computer was lagging and I needed to install updates (the computer wanted to restart), so I just killed the explorer.exe process, and then I went to task manager and restarted.

Next boot it brought up an error saying:

MAFUP is Compressed

Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart


Every restart had the same message.


Solution:

boot into your operating system's recovery console from the disk (mine being XP)

type in "cd C:\" without the quotes to go to C: drive (relying on the fact the file is there)

then look for the file (mine being MAFUP) in the C:\ directory.

type in "ATTRIB -c MAFUP" without the quotes and press enter

Reboot and go back to normal life.

Hope this helps.

Thanks. Hopefully that will indeed help someone in the future.

Note that compressing is not really a good idea. It is for archiving but to save disk space tends to cause more problems for many people. And since the files have to be de-compressed before use, it does not speed things up either. It was probably a good idea when disk drives were not very big, but expensive. Today, disk space is cheap so it is typically best to either free up space by uninstalling what is not needed, or buy more space.

Thanks again for the followup.