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| Thread ID: 102831 | 2009-09-03 02:23:00 | Compression on a USB zip drive, thingee. | ianhnz (4263) | Press F1 |
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| 806489 | 2009-09-03 02:23:00 | Hi guys and hoping someone can help? I have a 128 MB usb zip drive. Yes I know it is small but when one is an invalid, on Invalids Benefit, one does not have extra money to buy them. Anyhow my question is it possible to have compression on the drive, so it will hold more? :thanks, Ian | ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 806490 | 2009-09-03 02:34:00 | You could put compressed (zipped) files on there, but no, there is no hardware compression... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 806491 | 2009-09-03 02:37:00 | Yes I woundered about that. On the hard drives I can select compression, but not the usb drive, :thanks olMiester | ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 806492 | 2009-09-03 08:33:00 | 1gb Flash drives are <$10....:D | Blam (54) | ||
| 806493 | 2009-09-03 08:35:00 | That's true, but... | ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 806494 | 2009-09-03 08:37:00 | I remember, years ago and maybe Widows 95, there was a replacement "Format" program that when used on floopy drives would give more capacity. | ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 806495 | 2009-09-03 09:31:00 | Tech stuff :nerd: The reason the hard drives can be compressed is because they are formatted as NTFS, which supports compression. The flash drive is formatted as FAT32, which doesn't. If you want to convert it, back everything up, click Start > Run, and type cmd.exe. Then enter "convert x: /fs:ntfs" (without quotes), where x: is the drive letter of your flash drive. Now you can enable compression. :D |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 806496 | 2009-09-03 09:54:00 | If you want to convert it, back everything up, click Start > Run, and type cmd.exe. Then enter "convert x: /fs:ntfs" (without quotes), where x: is the drive letter of your flash drive. Now you can enable compression. :D Only thing is, if youre planning on booting from it, it wont boot (well it didnt last time I tried) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 806497 | 2009-09-03 11:06:00 | Tech stuff :nerd: The reason the hard drives can be compressed is because they are formatted as NTFS, which supports compression. The flash drive is formatted as FAT32, which doesn't. If you want to convert it, back everything up, click Start > Run, and type cmd.exe. Then enter "convert x: /fs:ntfs" (without quotes), where x: is the drive letter of your flash drive. Now you can enable compression. :D NTFS my not be a good filesystem for use on a flash drive as it is a journaling filesystem and due to the increased number of writes it may wear the drive out quicker. Also, NTFS may not be compatible with all computers you put the drive into |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 806498 | 2009-09-03 19:58:00 | Thank you. Your comment, "due to the increased number of writes it may wear the drive out quicker". Are flash drives limited to writes? I use it as a "small" back up disk and write to it, once a week. Also shame you can't compress floopy disks, anymore, as they are still handy to have around. Ian | ianhnz (4263) | ||
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