Article: Q135965
Product(s): Microsoft Windows 95.x Retail Product
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Last Modified: 18-DEC-2000
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95
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SYMPTOMS
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After you compress a drive with DriveSpace 3, the drive's properties may
indicate that the amount of space used on the drive has increased, even though
no new files were added.
CAUSE
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When you compress a drive with DriveSpace 3, a larger cluster size is used on
the drive, and small files appear to use up more space than on a drive with
smaller clusters. However, DriveSpace 3 uses an efficient allocation method that
actually frees up wasted space within clusters.
MORE INFORMATION
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DriveSpace 3 uses 32K clusters. Most host drives less than 1 gigabyte in size
use clusters smaller than 32K.
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Technology : kbWin95search kbGamesSearch kbPlusSearch kbZNotKeyword3 kbPlus95
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