Windows Media Files and Compressed Drive

[topdawg66]

Hello Everyone

I am in the process of burning my cd collection to my PC its roughly 9 gigs of WMA files. I have an old 10 gig drive with about 8 gigs of free space on it.
If I compress this drive to give me more space and move my music files on to it while my files corrupt or have any trouble accessing them.

[Heon2574]

I've never used compression on a drive before in Windows but I can say for sure that it should not corrupt any data. However I imagine that performance on the drive would drop as Windows would have to decompress the files on the hard drive to playback any files. So on the good side you get more space (don't know exactly how much though), on the bad side you may lose some speed when accessing the files. As for corruption, I don't think that's gonna happen, unless maybe you suddenly lose power or drop your computer off the table.

[glc]

If the files aren't compressible, you won't gain any space.