Lack of hard drive space is one of the biggest problems we are facing today. But, the good part is that Windows itself gives us some possible solutions to this problem. So we can save some space on the computer. One of these options is to compress a disk drive to save space in this way.
It's a good way to save hard drive space. So it is certainly something that is recommended to do if necessary. Here we show you how you can compress a disk drive. You will see that it is very simple.
The process in question is very simple and only takes a few seconds. The first thing we have to do is decide the disk drive that we want to compress to save hard disk space. This is something for you to decide. Either the heaviest of all or the one you want.
Once you know which unit is the one that we are going to compress, we go to the properties of the same. Therefore, we right click on said unit and enter the properties. At the bottom of it we get the option to compress this drive. You can see it in the image.
When we have selected this option and we accept it, Windows will begin to compress the unit in question. Depending on its size and the number of files, the process may take more or less. But we will have a remarkable space saving on the hard disk thanks to this action. In many cases it can be 20%.
This type of compression works normally, just like other types of compressions. But you will continue to have access to these files at all times. This is something that often worries users. But by compressing a drive we can still access these files. So you don't have to worry in this regard. We will continue to use the unit normally, but we have saved hard disk space.