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| Thread ID: 23867 | 2002-08-28 03:34:00 | Disk Compression on Win2K FAT32 Drive possible? | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 74378 | 2002-08-28 03:34:00 | I've recently installed Win2K Pro on my laptop, asfter having to do a format. The only problem is that my drive is about 1.4GB Big and Win2K has used almost half that. I want to know if there's any CAB Files of Win2K's that I can delete (Such as additional driver files) and also if there is a disk compression utiliy that I can install that will compress the drive, like was possible in 98 (Only not too neccesary coz 98 Install took only about 150MB) Thanks Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 74379 | 2002-08-28 04:30:00 | google showed a couple of commercial programmes to compress .exe and .dll files (by up to 50%). Such programmes worked well in DOS ... often making loading faster, because of less disk activity. According to one posting, NTFS allows disk compression. Whether you have enough disk space to do the conversion is another question ... ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 74380 | 2002-08-28 04:45:00 | Yeah, NTFS compression shouldn't be too hard, but I'm running FAT32 and not NTFS. I did a quick look on googlemyself and came up with winzip and stuffit and the likes of ImageDrive and other such things, nothing that will compress a FAT32 Drive running Windows 2000 with about 500MB Free (If I erase most of the data on it already bar windows installation) Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 74381 | 2002-08-28 05:00:00 | The two file compressors are PECompress and Shrinkwrap. If you cut the size of all the .exe and .dll, that should make some room. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 74382 | 2002-08-28 05:25:00 | Is that all that's available? What If I were to do a dual-boot with 98 and use drivespace first, then install windows 2000? Would that work or would windows 2k want a new partition??? Otherwise, should I goto the NTFS Filing system??? Chilling_Silence |
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| 74383 | 2002-08-28 05:51:00 | That's all I saw in a quick look ... I saw a warning about not insalling NT on partitions compressed by third party compressors ... Probably NTFS would be the best approach ... that gives you something supported by MS (for what that's worth). I'm pretty certain (as a non-Windows person) that W2K would want a partition of its own, because it is NT based. But as I said, have you got enough room to do the compression? That can be a problem, though a reinstallation straight to NTFS would do it. (Of course I have struck the reverse problem --- after compressing, you never have enough room to take off the compression :_|). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 74384 | 2002-08-28 05:56:00 | Yeah, I've done it several times sharing 98 and 2k on one FAT32 partition! I have about 500Megs free! Maybe NTFS is the best option, But does anybody else have any suggestions? I've tried the first few pages on google using about 7-8 different searches, anybody else??? Even a comment telling me its not possible would be nice (Well, maybe not!!) Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 74385 | 2002-08-28 09:58:00 | You may want to take a look at PKLite for Windows (www.pkzipstore.com) | antmannz (28) | ||
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