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are there any disadvantages in compreesing a HD ? 4

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skip555

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Apr 26, 2002
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what if any are the disadvantages of "compressing the C drive to save disc space " Os is , vista home premium I'm trying to help a friend out she has a 66gb HD and 9mb free .

we cant figure out whats filling the drive , I was going to use go to my pc to remote in and see what I can find but there isn't even enough space to load that (shes 600 miles away )

I borrowed a vista laptop from my daughter in law so I could look at the OS ., when I go to the c drive I see the option to "compress this drive to save disk space "

what if anything is the disadvantage to doing this ?

she is a photographer so I suspect a lot of it is picture files would compressing affect them ?
 
Speaking of graphic images..................

Idea: Take all "interesting" pictures of her off the computer after emailing to me. I will save them until she has funds for a larger hard drive.

Profit??
 
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