diff --git a/src/daemon/main.cpp b/src/daemon/main.cpp
index 4496f6d6e..0cf069636 100644
--- a/src/daemon/main.cpp
+++ b/src/daemon/main.cpp
@@ -120,6 +120,18 @@ bool isFat32(const wchar_t* root_path)
 
   return wcscmp(L"FAT32", &fs[0]) == 0;
 }
+
+bool isNtfsCompressed(const wchar_t* file_path)
+{
+  DWORD file_attributes = ::GetFileAttributesW(file_path);
+  if (file_attributes == INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES) 
+  {
+    MERROR("Failed to get '" << file_path << "' file attributes. Error code: " << ::GetLastError());
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return file_attributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED;
+}
 #endif
 
 int main(int argc, char const * argv[])
@@ -262,6 +274,21 @@ int main(int argc, char const * argv[])
     {
       MERROR("Data directory resides on FAT32 volume that has 4GiB file size limit, blockchain might get corrupted.");
     }
+
+    // Check for NTFS compression on both the data folder and the lmdb folder
+    // Compression can corrupt the blockchain on disk
+    if (isNtfsCompressed(data_dir.c_str()))
+    {
+      MERROR("Data directory is using NTFS compression, blockchain might get corrupted.");
+    }
+    bf::path db_path {bf::path(data_dir) / "lmdb"};
+    if (bf::exists(db_path))
+    {
+      if (isNtfsCompressed(db_path.c_str()))
+      {
+        MERROR("Database directory is using NTFS compression, blockchain might get corrupted.");
+      }
+    }
 #endif
 
     // FIXME: not sure on windows implementation default, needs further review