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Compress Drive to Save Disk Space Checkbox is GONE


Mant

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"Compress drive to save disk space" checkbox is gone, it just indexing service. So the file folder that i copy-paste into that drive is not auto compress anymore. How to fix without reformating the drive? Is there some registry patch to fix this?

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You don't want to compress the drive to save space. Everything you do will require the decompression of many files which will slow your system to a crawl. Clean up your system, uninstall some programs, back up your files to CD/DVD/flash drive/external storage. The only way that option gets removed from the GUI like that is if a DLL file is modified.

If you are concerned about HDD space, then get a larger drive. A Seagate 250GB SATA2 8MB NCQ drive is $100 from NCIX.com if you live in Canada. Otherwise, get it from NewEgg.com

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ok. i will reformating this partition for the last solution. but the problem is there are "documents and settings" (users profile) in this drive.

any ideas?

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repair install means format the drive

thank you very much. :thumbup

Repair install does NOT mean format the drive :P

Give'em books and give'em books and they just eat the pages!

Take the computer to a tech familiar with doing HD cleanups.

There's a few of us around.

Bring your lunch though.....it takes several hours to do it right.

finis

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