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DriveSpace

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DriveSpace

A disk compression technology from Microsoft that was used in Windows 95/98. Replacing the earlier DoubleSpace compression, it was included in DOS starting with Version 6.22. DriveSpace reduced cluster size from 32K to 512 bytes on 1GB and 2GB drives under FAT16 partitions. See cluster.



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Like Windows 95, Windows 98 has a nifty feature, called DriveSpace, an application that compresses files on either the hard disk or floppy disks by as much as 3:1.
Windows 95 offers four basic tools that go a long way in helping to maintain your OS: ScanDisk, Disk Defragmenter, DriveSpace and Backup.
Windows 95 has such a program, called DriveSpace, that is built into its operating system and it's very easy to set up.
 
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