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Some programs claimed to achieve incredible compression ratios are completely fake: they do not compress at all but just stored the uncompressed data in hidden files on the hard disk or keep it in unused clusters. Needless to say, such programs are dangerous and should never be used because there is a significant risk of losing all the data. The OWS program just remembers which clusters contained the data on the hard disk. The data can be recovered only if those clusters are not used again for another file. The WIC program searches for the first directory in drive C: and creates a hidden file called WINFILE.DLL containing a copy of all the original files. If you copy the compressed file to another computer (which doesn't have the file WINFILE.DLL), WIC reports a CRC error.
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Last Update May 13 2007 @ 00:22 AM