hard drive space used

[Tester]

Hi there,
Is there a way to lower the space used by my files on one 1 TB hard
drive comparing to other 500 GB drives for ex.? I use XP Home and
NTFS. Thank you, T

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:46:05 AM, and on a
whim, Tester pounded out on the keyboard:

Hi there,
Is there a way to lower the space used by my files on one 1 TB hard
drive comparing to other 500 GB drives for ex.? I use XP Home and
NTFS. Thank you, T

Hi T,

If you don't have anything on it right now, or can move what is on the
drive elsewhere, you could reformat it at a command prompt:

example: format F: /FS:NTFS /A:8192 (Letter F being the drive letter, /A
option being the cluster size)

which will DELETE everything on your drive.

Figure out what the average size of your files are. If you're doing
video, I would leave large clusters. If just word processing files and
the like, you may want small clusters. I have my OS & data drives (not
video drives) formatted to 512k cluster sizes, which wastes the least
amount. The trade-off is fragmentation, but I optimize my drives every
week or two, and it's not nearly an issue with NTFS as it is with FAT32.

Otherwise, a 3rd party tool like Partition Magic can resize clusters.
But I would make sure you had a backup in case something goes wrong.


Terry R.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Delete some?

: Hi there,
: Is there a way to lower the space used by my files on one 1 TB hard
: drive comparing to other 500 GB drives for ex.? I use XP Home and
: NTFS. Thank you, T

 

[Paul]

Hi there,
Is there a way to lower the space used by my files on one 1 TB hard
drive comparing to other 500 GB drives for ex.? I use XP Home and
NTFS. Thank you, T

Do you mean file compression ?

The files found on a typical user's hard drive now, are not
that compressible. This article has some examples.

( Scroll to the bottom and read the "Bad ideas" section here... )

http://www.dansdata.com/ntfscompression.htm

Paul

 

[Gerry]

Divide the 1 TB hard drive into 500 GB partitions?

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