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Re: offtopic: drivespace

• Posted by "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET> Apr 17, 2000
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> i have a problem: i have no disk space on my computer (800HDD)
> is there any program like drivespace3 which is for 32-bit FAT, on the
> net?
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> if i change my FAT to 16-bit, will this slow down computer?
> how can i do this?
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> Has anybody any idea how can i free up some disk space?

    1. Zip files that aren't used frequently.
       UnZip them when needed.
           You can Zip entire directories complete with directory
           structure.
       The following don't compress well:
           Movies (AVI, MOV, MPG), most images (GIF and JPG),
           Songs (MP3)
       Candidates: Anything that runs from DOS, Games
          Sounds types: MID, MOD and similiar, WAV, RAW, AU, VOC,
            IT, XM, S3M, STM, DSM, MED, FAR, ULT, MTM, 669
          Text sound lists: M3U, PLS, ASX
          Text of any kind: TXT, DOC, WRI

    2. Store the above types of data on removable media.
        IE: Floppy, Zip, Syquest Jet, CD-Recordable,
            CD-Read/Write, Optical Disk, Clik Disk, Tape backup

    3. Store some data online instead of on your machine.
       Internet charges may make this undesirable.

    4. Clean out unneeded data. (tough job)

    5. Get a bigger Hard drive.  (Never regretted) can be expensive.

    6. Maybe you could get a friend to burn a CD of much of your data.
        suggestively requires: Network or removal of hard drive from
        your system and put in theirs long enough to record the data.
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> How do i change letter of drive/cd-rom? (C,D)
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    For Windows 9x, Without using DOS drivers !!!
    Control Panel
    System
    Device Manager
    [-] CDROM
      |_(Mitsumi, whatever) CD

    Properties
    Settings
      Bottom area:
    Reserved drive letters
    Start drive letter:   [ J: [v]
    End drive letter:     [ J: [v]

    [ OK ]
    Then reboot.

> thanks for any answer


        Lucius L. Hilley III