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July 10th 03, 12:22 PM
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Compress drive option
I am runningn low of space on 1 of my HDs and can't get another yet.
Are there any problems with clicking the "compress drive" option with W2k? Thanks Mike 
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July 10th 03, 03:41 PM
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wrote in message ... I am runningn low of space on 1 of my HDs and can't get another yet. Are there any problems with clicking the "compress drive" option with W2k? Thanks Mike i did that to my NT4 machine and it worked fine what it did was simply compress many of the files rather than create a compressed volume (as would be done with win9x fat16)
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July 10th 03, 06:42 PM
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In article , philo
writes wrote in message ... I am runningn low of space on 1 of my HDs and can't get another yet. Are there any problems with clicking the "compress drive" option with W2k? Thanks Mike i did that to my NT4 machine and it worked fine what it did was simply compress many of the files rather than create a compressed volume (as would be done with win9x fat16) Are these all compressed individually or into one compressed file? One problem with one whole compressed file is that one hd error can cause you to lose all your progs and data. -- Peter Ives Remove ALL_STRESS only before sending me an email
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July 10th 03, 06:44 PM
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:22:02 GMT, wrote:
I am runningn low of space on 1 of my HDs and can't get another yet. Are there any problems with clicking the "compress drive" option with W2k? It won't do didly if the files are already compressed: MP3, AVI, MPG etc. -bobb
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July 10th 03, 06:54 PM
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"Peter Ives" wrote in message o.uk... In article , philo writes wrote in message ... I am runningn low of space on 1 of my HDs and can't get another yet. Are there any problems with clicking the "compress drive" option with W2k? Thanks Mike i did that to my NT4 machine and it worked fine what it did was simply compress many of the files rather than create a compressed volume (as would be done with win9x fat16) Are these all compressed individually or into one compressed file? One problem with one whole compressed file is that one hd error can cause you to lose all your progs and data. it compressed the files individually... it did *not* make a compressed volume as in win9x... so my feeling is that it's safer than the win9x compression
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