"Urgent" STAC Compression in Windows 2000 Server How to.

[Guest_imported]

i Want to knwo how to enable STAC comression in windows 2000 server when using Dial-up.

 

[ShaithisDanoveur]

You can compress an NTFS drive, but as for Stac compression, where your entire drive is actually one contiguous file on the hard drive, I don't believe there's any support for that under Win2K.

The compression ratio using NTFS compression is only a little less than what you'd get with Stac, and it's faster as well.

Do this from a command prompt like so (or in the start/run box)

CONVERT drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

After conversion enable compression on that drive. It'll take a while to chew it all but you'll have more space so long as you're not storing just compressed stuff.

NTFS also allows you to take advantage of file security that FAT and FAT32 don't allow for. However, if this machine dual boots, the caveat is Win95/98/Me don't see NTFS partitions.

Remember: To convert from NTFS to FAT32, you backup, reformat, and restore

HTH