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I want to know how much space I can get by using NTFS compression on a 528mo disk? (something like 540,000,000 octets) Perhaps 1GO? Can I just compress a single folder, and how much space will it occupy after? I want to fit a ~510mo set of files onto the disk, in addition to Win NT itself, Office 97 and Acrobat. Otherwise I will just do a minimal install of the 510mo prog (12mo) or the 1/2 way one (50mo).

Name: wanderer
Date: February 4, 2004 at 13:11:41 Pacific

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sounds like you have been spending too much time studing wan protocols bud. Data is stored in bytes not octets :-) At best you might get 2:1 compression with some files. Most will compress at 1.2:1 If you are looking for some big gain in available space I would not count too much on that.

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