Guest bnmohan via WindowsKB.com Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 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 -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windowsxp/200807/1
Guest Bob I Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 Re: Disable compression on a compressed ntfs drive Inline 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 Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 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 -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windowsxp/200807/1
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 Re: Disable compression on a compressed ntfs drive "bnmohan via WindowsKB.com" <u35859@uwe> wrote in message news:87ec9e1af0a96@uwe... > 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 Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 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? -- Message posted via http://www.windowskb.com
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