Re: Need to Know How to Compress Data on Floppy Disk

From: DE (nowhere_at_all.disorg)
Date: 02/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:44:23 -0800

Rosie wrote:
> Hi,
>I have been writing my family history since 1999. The computer I had when
> I started this history did not have a CD-RW, but it had a floppy diskette
> drive. I used a floppy disk for my history. I had Windows 98 on my 4 year
> old computer which I replaced last month. The new computer has XP Home on
> it. This Monday, I worked some on my history and and when I was finished,
> I clicked on the "Save" icon in MS Works. I received the message that the
> computer could not save my work in the location I had picked. This was
> Drive A. The message said that there was not enough room on the disk. II
> closed out MS Works and went to My Computer and right clicked on the
> properties of Drive A and in the pie chart I saw that the disk was not
> even half full. I was going to compress this data anyway, thinking that I
> would have more space. I looked for the button which said Compress under
> Properties. There is no such button in XP Home I discovered. There was in
> Windows 98. I know, because I used it many times. I would like to know how
> I can compress the data that I have already put onto this floppy disk.

Do NOT SAVE ORIGINAL DATA TO A FLOPPY DISK.

All it takes is a speck of dust, a stray magnetic field, or any of a dozen
other trivial things to cause complete loss of data on the disk.

*Always* save to the hard drive first & then copy to the diskette.

-- DE