How You Can Compress Your Drive to Save Disk Space

Lack of hard drive space is one of the biggest problems we are facing today. But, the good thing is that Windows itself gives us some possible solutions to this problem. Then we can save some space on the computer. One of these options is to compress a disk drive to save space therefore.

It is a good way to save hard disk space.. So it is undoubtedly something that is recommended to do if necessary. Here's how you can compress a disk drive. You will see that it is very easy.

The procedure in question is very simple and only takes a few seconds. The first thing we will do is choose the disk drive that we want to compress to save hard disk space. This is something for you to choose. Or the heaviest of all or the one you want.

Once you know which drive we are going to compress, let's go to the properties of the same. Therefore, we right click on said unit and enter the properties. At the bottom we have the option to compress this drive. You can see it in the picture.

When we have chosen this option and accept it, Windows will begin to compress the unit in question. Depending on its size and the number of files, the procedure may take more or less. But we will have a notable saving of space on the hard disk thanks to this action. In several cases it can reach 20%.

This type of compression works regularly, in the same way as other types of compressions. But you will still have access to these files at all times. This is something that users are concerned about. But when compressing a unit we can still enter these files. Therefore you should not worry about it. We will continue to use the unit regularly, but we have saved hard disk space.