Disk Compression

Hi all,

I've got a 100MB ZIP disk and I came across this compression tools when I right click it, under compression. It says that I can compress the disk so that I'll get 133.78MB more disk space.

Can I know, what does this actually means? Does it means more disk space on the disk for me to store things?

What are the effects of compression? From what I know, if you compress the disk, it'll create another drive known as the host drive. If I compress the disk on this computer, it will create the host drive. So, can the contents of the disk be executed on another computer?

 

Just a bit confusion here. I have read the post to say that you are asking about compressing a 100mb Zip Drive. This is not what you want to do. It already is compressed.
The Compression being referred to would compress part of your hard drive. If you have the FAT32 file system, I would think that you do, it will not work. It would work on a FAT16 drive. Just right click on a drive and select Properties, and it will say which File System you have.
Compression of a hard drive will slow down access to the compressed files.

 

Steve: Ok, I get your point. Does it mean that the compression actually compress the disk space and not the files? So, how do I go about uncompressing it?

markp62: I've check out my HDD and it's FAT 32. Whereas for the 100MB Zip disk, it reads FAT and that's why I have the option to compress it. I'm not sure what you mean by

 

I believe that you have the Iomega Zip Drive. It has a way of compressing 100mb of data onto a special floppy [if you can call it that] of their design, for backup purposes.

 

Yes, It's Iomega Zip 100. Well, I just wanted to store 125.8MB of files into it. I didn't load the iomegaware though. You happen to have zip100 too?

 

Not on my personal, but use it at work to back up the accounting software. I believe it will span disks if using the software.