is a file compression software that works

I recently formatted my 17 GB drive and because of updates I went back up to 3 GB I REALLY need to compress my files (was on FAT32 to NTFS). the NTFS compression feature is useless, does not compress anything

The game April 12, 2012 12:22 + 0000, vova viner wrote:

I recently formatted my 17 GB drive and because of updates I went back up to 3 GB I REALLY need to compress my files (was on FAT32 to NTFS). the NTFS compression feature is useless, does not compress anything

I highly recommend against the compression. It will drastically increase
your risk of losing everything on the disc.

A 17 GB drive is tiny. Everything you do to win the top place (be it
compression or anything else) will be a temporary measure. The only one
real solution to your problem is to buy a larger drive. Fortunately
they are very cheap; You can buy a drive of 320 GB on Amazon.com for
US $75.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

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