Guest Bizebear Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 I want to know if I can compress my hard drive more than once. I did it once, now it won't let me do it again.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: Can you compress hard drive more than once? "Bizebear" <Bizebear@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0BC8F2AC-4408-4245-971D-E19431D3B302@microsoft.com... >I want to know if I can compress my hard drive more than once. I did it > once, now it won't let me do it again. > You can compress it as many times as you like. If you do it a sufficient number of times then you can store 100 GBytes of information on an ordinary floppy disk of 1.44 MBytes capacity. The above statement is obviously patent nonsense. No, attempting to apply the same compression mechanism more than once will NOT deliver any additional benefits, even if it was permitted.
Guest Uncle Grumpy Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: Can you compress hard drive more than once? "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote: >The above statement is obviously patent nonsense. Then why did you bother to post it??
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Can you compress hard drive more than once? "Uncle Grumpy" <unclegrumpy@ameritech.net> wrote in message news:6cubd3tsj84i7ddm1c5u3s7ld9jij7jr87@4ax.com... > "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote: > >>The above statement is obviously patent nonsense. > > Then why did you bother to post it?? As a thought-experiment.
Guest Plato Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Can you compress hard drive more than once? =?Utf-8?B?Qml6ZWJlYXI=?= wrote: > > I want to know if I can compress my hard drive more than once. I did it > once, now it won't let me do it again. Thank the Lord. You shouldn't have done it even once. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
Guest mikeyhsd Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Can you compress hard drive more than once? hard drives are very inexpensive these days, why even bother to compress it. it is not very east to uncompress as it requires more free disk space. once you add something to the hard drive. it becomes almost impossible to uncompress. mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com "Bizebear" <Bizebear@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0BC8F2AC-4408-4245-971D-E19431D3B302@microsoft.com... I want to know if I can compress my hard drive more than once. I did it once, now it won't let me do it again.
Guest Ken Blake Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Can you compress hard drive more than once? "Bizebear" <Bizebear@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0BC8F2AC-4408-4245-971D-E19431D3B302@microsoft.com... >I want to know if I can compress my hard drive more than once. I did it > once, now it won't let me do it again. If you are asking about compressing an already-compressed drive, no you can't do it again. If you could, and you followed that to its logical conclusion, if you did it enough times, you could compress a 100GB drive down to 1 byte. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
Guest Ken Blake Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Can you compress hard drive more than once? "Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message news:46d6746f$1$98946$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com... > =?Utf-8?B?Qml6ZWJlYXI=?= wrote: >> >> I want to know if I can compress my hard drive more than once. I did it >> once, now it won't let me do it again. > > Thank the Lord. You shouldn't have done it even once. LOL! Good advice. I agree completely. It puts all your eggs in one basket. If something goes wrong, you can lose everything on the drive. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
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