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Compressed my C: drive with WinRAR to save space. How do I unzip it from the BIOS?

My 500GB SSD was getting completely full I know you can compress files to save space, so I just right-clicked the entire "C:\Windows" folder, selected "Add to archive" and set it to maximum compression. It took like three hours, but it saved me 40GB! The problem is, I restarted my PC and now it just gives me a black screen with a flashing cursor. Since Windows is zipped up, how do I open WinRAR from the motherboard BIOS to extract it so it can boot?

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u/NarutoDragon732 — 3 months ago
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Compressed my C: drive with WinRAR to save space. How do I unzip it from the BIOS?

My 500GB SSD was getting completely full. I know you can compress files to save space, so I just right-clicked the entire "C:\Windows" folder, selected "Add to archive", and set it to maximum compression. It took like three hours, but it saved me 40GB! The problem is, I restarted my PC and now it just gives me a black screen with a flashing cursor. Since Windows is zipped up, how do I open WinRAR from the motherboard BIOS to extract it so it can boot?

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u/No_Difference412 — 3 months ago