External Hard Drives

[dazuk1972]

I'm wondering. How come we can't compress files and folders in an external hard drive? As I've mentioned in other threads, I have two FAT 32 external hard drives. I thought about compressing them and the two options at the bottom of the drive properties are not there.

Many thanks.

Darren.

[benbryant]

AFAIK, the "Compress drive to save disk space" option is only available if your disk is formatted with NTFS file system. If you still use Wins 98 or Me, you may as well keep FAT32. Otherwise, convert to NTFS which is totally way better

Regards

[anonymez]

IIRC FAT32 (with Win98, at least) did support compression, don't know about XP. What sort of files do you keep on the drives? In most cases compression does little but degrade performance

NTFS which is totally way better

Totally