Compress drive

[Martin Racette]

Hi,

I would like to know if there is any adverse consequences to compressing the
Drive C, I know that the system may be a little slower but beside that, what
else ....

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Thank you in Advance

Merci a l'Avance

Martin

 

[David Candy]

Nothing. It may be faster if the CPU is newish and hard drive oldish.

 

[Courtney]

Just one. If drive C: is a system drive, and the system fails (i.e., Windows
crashes), what do you do now?

courtney

 

[Martin Racette]

Whether it,s compress or not, I'm in trouble and I have to change the drive,
it's just that its an 8Gb drive and I'm running out of space for the damn
swapfile, and XP refuse to move it elsewhere (on another drive).

That's something I'm missing from Linux, a swap partition dedicated solely for
the swapfile

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Thank you in Advance

Merci a l'Avance

Martin

 

[Matt Coy]

Martin,

When you specify another drive for the pagefile to be on, do you highlight
the drive it's currently on and tell it not to have a pagefile there?

HOW TO: Move the Paging File in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307886

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[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

I don't know if this is an issue with XP but under 9x, occasionally the disk
would become unmounted. The operation of remounting the disk sometimes
didn't work and unless you were well backed up, you could lose everything.
Granted, in 9x there were issues of incompatible tools. Hence if you
mounted in one version and you got an unmounted disk warning, if you didn't
have the proper software tool, you couldn't mount the disk and couldn't
access your data.

Not sure exactly what causes the issue but it was an issue. For more
information, you might run a search at www.google.com. Understand, most of
what you'll find will be about 9x and I'm not sure if these issues are the
same in XP.

 

[David Candy]

NTFS is file compression rather than making a virtual drive. Any NTFS driver will read the file. Only if pulling data directly off a disk will compression matter.

 

[Jason Tsang]

That issue doesn't apply to NTFS compression at all.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Thanks, David. I wasn't sure about this but that explains it. If it
doesn't make a virtual drive, it doesn't apply.

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NTFS is file compression rather than making a virtual drive. Any NTFS driver
will read the file. Only if pulling data directly off a disk will
compression matter.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Thanks, Jason.