Compressed hard drive to make space and now computer gives error message and refuses to start up.

Hi,
I wanted to make space on my T43 and made the unfortunate mistake of compressing the hard drive. Everything was fine till i turned the computer off. Now when i turned it on the next day, it refuses to start up and gives an error message saying ' AEQSPQ is compresse, Press ctrl+alt+del to restart' . But when I press these, it does not restart but temporarily shows me the IBmM logo page where I have an option to interrupt normal startup by going into the BIOS utility, and then it goes back to the same error message. I do not know what to do in the BIOS part.
I am getting an ATA hard drive case to back up my computer memory but i do not know how to fix this problem. I have important documents on my computer that i need urgent access to and cannot. Desperate need of help here. Would appreciate advice. Thank you.

Hi,
Thank you for the prompt reply. I chose the built in windows option to compress and it did not distingusih it as a non compressible file. I went to my computer and right clicked on drive C, where i chose 'compress files to make space'. It took a few minutes and was done.
The error message in itself does not give any hits on google but i found some similar cases of hard drives being compressed and people getting the same error message as me but with a different file name.
My case is very similar to this case, : http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xprepair/thread/39f3b8cf-419f-435b-818d-11cd05d17ff..., only difference is that she has an HP and I have an IBM.
According to the post above, it is a very common problem and HP has even written an article about it, with step by step instructions on how to fix the problem but i do not know how to apply these steps to my T43. You might have guessed by now that I am no computer whiz. Hope u can assist. Once again, thanks a bunch. I appreciate your help.

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