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

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From: Dave Rado (drado_at_onetel.net.uk)
Date: 07/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:52:18 +0100

Hi George

"george" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:uCT4jmucEHA.2816@TK2MSFTNGP11.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.
|
| Not so, because 'compression' is just an 'attribute' of the files and
| folders and not a characteristic of the drive.
| So upon restore your files will be written to the disk in uncompressed
form
| and then, as I already said, compressed 'in place'.

I see what you mean, but presumably it would work if you only restored a few
folders at a time rather the whole lot at once?

Regards

Dave

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