Is there any Win32 driver to compress FAT32 hard drives under Win98?
If so, where can I find it?

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:05:44 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter
<maspethrose7@aol.com> wrote:

>Is there any Win32 driver to compress FAT32 hard drives under Win98?
>If so, where can I find it?

Did you google for it?

There are no FAT32 disk compression drivers available. This was one of
the advantages of NTFS over FAT32. Microsoft never supported FAT32
compression and no one created an after-market product. About the only
thing you can do is use WinZIP or WinRAR to compress folders into ZIP
or RAR files and use them to extract your data files when you need
them. Highly inconvenient. Otherwise, buy a larger hard drive.

Windows 9x/Me came with DriveSpace to compress FATx partitions. It's the 
only FATx disk compression available for that OS version. Check the 
Add/Remove Program from the Control Panel.


Harry Potter wrote:
> Is there any Win32 driver to compress FAT32 hard drives under Win98?
> If so, where can I find it?

DriveSpace did not support FAT32, only FAT16.

On 16 Aug, 12:44, JJ <jaeju...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Windows 9x/Me came with DriveSpace to compress FATx partitions. It's the
> only FATx disk compression available for that OS version. Check the
> Add/Remove Program from the Control Panel.
>
> Harry Potter wrote:
> > Is there any Win32 driver to compress FAT32 hard drives under Win98?
> > If so, where can I find it?

On Aug 15, 5:19=A0pm, Geoff <ge...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> compression and no one created an after-market product. About the only
> thing you can do is use WinZIP or WinRAR to compress folders into ZIP
> or RAR files and use them to extract your data files when you need
> them. Highly inconvenient. Otherwise, buy a larger hard drive.

I could create batch files to decompress a program to a RAM drive, run
it from there, then delete it from there.  Thank you.