Can't enter BIOS after drive compression

[Francois Kruger]

So I decided to compress everything on my main drive which was a horrible idea.



Now I can't enter my BIOS anymore. I tried:

• Pressing keys on startup
• Running shutdown /s /fw in cmd but I get this error Boot to firmware UI is not supported by this system's firmware.(1)
• Unchecking the "Compress this drive to save space" checkbox (which took like 24 hours and most of my files still have that blue compressed icon on them, so maybe the decompression failed?)

Any idea what is wrong and how I can fix this so that I can enter my BIOS on startup? I could startup to my BIOS by pressing keys just fine, but after the compression I can't enter my BIOS anymore. The compression is definitely the problem (I think)

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