Should I compress my C drive?


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I just got a new tablet (Samsung Series 7 with Windows 8 :D) and have started to load some stuff on it (music, docs, etc.) Since it's just a 128 GB hard drive (I'm used to my laptop's 300 GB), I was thinking about compressing my C:\ drive to save space. Have any of you done this before? Do you know of any possible problem (of note might be that my C:\ drive is also bitlocker encrypted)? Would I be better off just purchasing a nice, large external drive?

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I just got a new tablet (Samsung Series 7 with Windows 8 :D) and have started to load some stuff on it (music, docs, etc.) Since it's just a 128 GB hard drive (I'm used to my laptop's 300 GB), I was thinking about compressing my C:\ drive to save space. Have any of you done this before? Do you know of any possible problem (of note might be that my C:\ drive is also bitlocker encrypted)? Would I be better off just purchasing a nice, large external drive?

as noted, compressing is just a bad idea overall.

besides that, why have you encrypted it ? do you have sensitive secret documents from work on it or something ? as that's the only reason it would be necessary to encrypt a drive, and it'll just lead to potential troubles down the road.

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Don't! if you are tight in space use things such as CCleaner and Windows Disk Cleanup, particularly tell Windows to delete shadow copies of files, that usually takes up a lot of space, just make sure you don't need to recover any files before you do this, you can also check out for files that might be taking a lot of space in your main drive and moving them to an external drive, partition or even the cloud, there are tools out there to find out which are the largest files in your drives.

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Thanks everyone, guess I'll just go and get an external drive then :D

as noted, compressing is just a bad idea overall.

besides that, why have you encrypted it ? do you have sensitive secret documents from work on it or something ? as that's the only reason it would be necessary to encrypt a drive, and it'll just lead to potential troubles down the road.

I've always been a bit paranoid, and, after having encrypted my computers for a few years now without any problems, I really just do it to (a) make me feel secure and (b) just in case I loose it somewhere people don't go snooping around my email and stuff :shiftyninja:

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I'd never compress a Windows drive. I remember so many programs and FAQs that would highlight them as unsupported special use cases that might break compatibility or decrease performance at least.

It just screams troubles and compressing the system drive is pretty much just disserving yourself.

So no, just don't do it.

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yep for at home invest in a NAS, also means all your other devices can access the data/media/files locally via WLAN, LAN or even via internet if you want.

I get by with Win7 slimmed down to under 20Gb. game data on another drive container (RAID0) and all user "data" music, films, tv, game patches etc etc all on my NAS.

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