Hard disk capacity increase method in Win XP system

In the Windows 9X operating system, the hard disk can be compressed by the system tool "Disk Space Management" to increase the space available on the disk. And we can't find "disk space management" in Windows XP, don't be frustrated, its practical Windows XP can also compress disks and folders to increase disk space, provided that Windows XP is used under NTFS.

Let's take the F disk as an example to see the compression of the disk in Windows XP.

1. Compressed Disk

Open "My Computer", view the "Properties" window of "F", under the "General" tab, select "Compress Disk to save disk space", then click "Apply" to pop up In the "Property Modification Confirmation" session window, select "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders, and files". Note that you cannot select "Apply changes only to F:\\". Click “OK”, the “Application Properties” progress window will pop up automatically and the remaining time will be displayed. The system will start to compress the disk. After the compression, we can view its properties and the available space will increase significantly.

2. Folder Compression

Open "My Computer", find the folder you want to compress, right click to open the folder property editing window, select the "Advanced" tab. Under the "Compress or Encrypt Properties" task, select "Compress content to save disk space", then click "Apply", in the pop-up application properties confirmation window, select "Apply to this folder, subfolders and files" check Box, then click "OK". Compare the space before and after the Windows folder is compressed. The space occupied before compression is 1.19GB, and after compression, it is 865MB, which means that after compression, the disk can have 325MB more available space.

Note:

1. Compression compresses disk folders, subfolders, and files, reducing disk space usage, while the total disk capacity is not increased.

2. Disk compression can only compress local disks and their folders and files, and cannot compress mobile disks and folders.

3. Disk compression comes at the expense of speed. It is generally not recommended for compression. It does require compression to compress individual unused folders or files to "increase" the available disk space.