Comment by alt227

I had a similar situation. As a kid I used to poke around on my families windows 3.1 PC and break it all the time.

One day I found an interesting new command called DriveSpace, and it looked exciting. I ran it on the C: drive and then got cold feet and cancelled the operation half way through. Needless to say this was a disk compression application, and I had just unknowingly compressed half my hard disk. Took a long time to figure that one out and I was in trouble with my Dad for bit, but we called a few experts we knew for advice and he included me along the journey to fix it. Something I always try to remember when my kids do something similar.