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Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 11 of 14: Disk Compression Previous Document: 11.2. I heard that using disk compression is helpful on drives > 1 GB. Is this true? Next Document: 11.4. How do I compress a part of my hard drive? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge I say Avoid If Possible. If you have to re-install Win95, you might not be able to read the compressed drive to perform the re-installation on! However, it can be done. You will have to have Disk Compression installed in Win95; check Add/Remove Programs / Windows Setup / Disk Tools. Then, right-click on your target hard drive and bring up its properties. You should see a Compression tab which gives you two options. Select the option to compress the whole hard drive. This built in compression (Affectionately called "DriveSpace 2") will re-boot your computer and run a compression process in a "miniature" Windows 3.1 environment. This means you can't use your computer while this happens. This does take a long time, so you should get it started and let it run overnight. When completed, you will have two active drive letters, or volumes; your original hard drive (Re-named to "H:" or some such thing) and your new compressed hard drive (Renamed "C:" to replace your original hard drive). User Contributions:Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 11 of 14: Disk Compression Previous Document: 11.2. I heard that using disk compression is helpful on drives > 1 GB. Is this true? Next Document: 11.4. How do I compress a part of my hard drive? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Part8 - Part9 - Part10 - Part11 - Part12 - Part13 - Part14 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: gordonf@intouch.bc.ca
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