cdorobantu Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Hi,There are certain disk cloning tools and file encryption applications that cannot deal with compressed files. Is there a way to disable the option to compress files? I would like to have the possibility to not allow users to compress their hard drive using the WinXP utility (see attached screen shot).Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
severach Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 One of the many reasons I install with FAT32 is to permanently prevent the file system from using compression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdorobantu Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 And otherwise, there is no way to prevent the file compression from being used? FAT32 lacks the security provided by the NTFS partition, so in an enterprise environment that not an option.Thanks for the reply though. Anyone with any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Don't use an imaging utility that doesn't support those NTFS features. Seriously though...I would be suspect of utilities that don't support them since they are an every day-common occurrence under WinXP. Hotfixes even create compressed folders under %SystemRoot% (if you don't use the nobackup switch). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 What backup software are you dealing with? I haven't come across any that cause this kind of problem yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdorobantu Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 @ZxianActually, backup utility used (which by the way, it's actually a disk cloning software for failing HDD) is not the main concern. The main concern is that a file encryption software that uses a private key has problems encrypting files that are compressed.So if no files are compressed, then the encryption software could perform its job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 And this encryption software is...? Have you looked into using something like TrueCrypt? There's another alternative to it, but TC does its job very well, and AFAIK can handle compressed files without troubles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phkninja Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 You shouldnt have a problem encrypting compressed files (unless they are locked by the OS), but you will have a problem compressing encrypted files (you wont get too much compression unless you use an isecure algorythm) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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