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by ycombinatrix 483 days ago
Why wouldn't decompressing work? The whole point is that the hard drive is restored to its (arbitrary) original state upon completion.
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Snoozus 483 days ago
Some data is just incompressible, like random numbers, encrypted data or already compressed data.
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ycombinatrix 482 days ago
The compression from GP's comment is irrelevant.

Put arbitrary data in, get the same arbitrary data out.

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