Compressed hard drive

My son cleaned up his laptop and did the disk compression to save space. Now he can not get the computer to bring up anything. He gets the following every time the computer starts:  OCSMY is compressed, hit ctrl/alt/del to restart. Doing that only brings up the same code.
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Satellite A205-S58331
Maybe one of these? 
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My best guess is that one or more boot files got compressed. Only Windows can decompress them. So there you are.
With lots of luck, that might be repaired. Can't hurt to try.
Turn the computer on and immediately press and hold the F8 key. On the Advanced Boot Options menu, choose Repair Your Computer. When you reach the System Recovery Options menu, choose Startup Repair.
If you don't have them, it might be a good time to order the recovery discs.
   Order Toshiba Recovery Media
-Jerry

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