[newbie] URGENT HELP NEEDED

[John N]

I installed, from scratch, Mandrake 7.

It took 2.75 HOURS - usually takes 35 minutes.

The system is now glacially s-l-o-w  with far too much hard drive activity.

It is also reporting a 2.2GB hard drive as about 5GB  !!

Have I activated any compression system, like the DOS DoubleDisk, by mistake?

I have to have sendmail configured and running by morning so please H-E-L-P !!!