Re: How safe is it to use Win XP's disk compression?

From: Dave Rado (drado_at_onetel.net.uk)
Date: 07/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:16:19 +0100

BTW:

"V Green" <vanceg@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:%23b%23BS1dcEHA.2544@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| However, you may not be able to if you're short
| on free disk space-the conversion utility needs quite a big
| chunk to do its work.

Easy to get round: backup, delete, compress the drive, restore. Or zip up as
much as possible, delete unzipped versions of the zipped files, compress the
drive, restore. :-)

Regards

Dave

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