Disable compression on a compressed ntfs drive

[Guest bnmohan via WindowsKB.com]

Hi! 30 Jul

 

I have a Windows XP hard disk with NTFS compression enabled. I now understand

that the compression is at the cost of performance, which I cannot afford.

 

Can I disable compression on a drive that had NTFS compression enabled? Or

will I end up with junk?

 

Thanks,

 

Mohan

 

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[Guest Bob I]

Re: Disable compression on a compressed ntfs drive

 

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bnmohan via WindowsKB.com wrote:

> Hi! 30 Jul

>

> I have a Windows XP hard disk with NTFS compression enabled. I now understand

> that the compression is at the cost of performance, which I cannot afford.

>

> Can I disable compression on a drive that had NTFS compression enabled?

 

Yes

 

Or

> will I end up with junk?

 

 

No

>

> Thanks,

>

> Mohan

>

[Guest bnmohan via WindowsKB.com]

Re: Disable compression on a compressed ntfs drive

 

Tks!!! That's a relief!

 

so a file that has been compressed will get decompressed and re-stored when

compression is disabled?

I was worried that when compression is disabled, xp will not decompress a

file that was compressed, and present it asis.

 

Mohan

 

bnmohan wrote:

>Hi! 30 Jul

>

>I have a Windows XP hard disk with NTFS compression enabled. I now understand

>that the compression is at the cost of performance, which I cannot afford.

>

>Can I disable compression on a drive that had NTFS compression enabled? Or

>will I end up with junk?

>

>Thanks,

>

>Mohan

 

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[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: Disable compression on a compressed ntfs drive

 

 

"bnmohan via WindowsKB.com" <u35859@uwe> wrote in message

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> Tks!!! That's a relief!

>

> so a file that has been compressed will get decompressed and re-stored

> when

> compression is disabled?

> I was worried that when compression is disabled, xp will not decompress a

> file that was compressed, and present it asis.

>

 

If you really are worried why not create a compressed folder and put some

unwanted files in it (create some if necessary). Now disable the

compression and try to read the files. You will now have the necessary

confidence to try it on a live folder (or not as the case may be).

 

It goes without saying that you will have a backup of your drive in case it

all goes wrong - won't you?

[Guest bnmohan via WindowsKB.com]

Re: Disable compression on a compressed ntfs drive

 

Oh My. Backup of a 20GB of dynamic data with well over 8000 files in

eleventeen trees. This is done daily, but with the fervent hope that it would

never be required to restore all.

I tried the other thing with my Vista machine. Told Vista to compress a

folder, and it turned the folder blue. Told it not to compress: and the

folder went black. Black and blue: it was readable. I will do it at office

too: first a file, then a folder, then pray, then the drive.

 

Thanks again. Life is complicated.

 

Mohan

 

M.I.5¾ wrote:

>> Tks!!! That's a relief!

>>

>

>> I was worried that when compression is disabled, xp will not decompress a

>> file that was compressed, and present it asis.

>

>If you really are worried why not create a compressed folder and put some

>unwanted files in it (create some if necessary). Now disable the

>compression and try to read the files. You will now have the necessary

>confidence to try it on a live folder (or not as the case may be).

>

>It goes without saying that you will have a backup of your drive in case it

>all goes wrong - won't you?

 

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