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Let's say I "DriveSpaced" my HD ( my 2gig Hd has about 200mb left) and there's a power interruption.

What will happen?
Are my files okay?
Should I kick myself?

Shouldn't do any harm but nevertheless; I would say backup before you drivespace your hd - that way....

I would say "don't drivespace". The amount of space gained can't compensate the loss of speed.

I "survived" some years with just 80 Mb in my 486, and never used Dblspace/Drivespace. I tried it once and it was so slow that I instantly reformatted.

You could try to buy a new HDD second had. They can be really, really cheap.

Clean your harddrive out before you do anything drastic. Search and destory temporary files and unused folders. Get rid of installer files for things you have installed. Reduce your page file size and make it fixed. Cut down your browsers history time and cache size. If you have lots of older stuff that you want to keep, but don't use it much, compress it and store it in a folder somewhere, etc, etc.

Drivespace isn't worth the trouble, you'll lose a lot of speed because it compresses everything.

a 486 and a Cyrix 233 are a bit different, you know.

I used drivespace for years, and learned one thing: When things on it go, they go HARDCORE. In the event of a minor fat table error or something, there's a real chance you can lose everything. Before I bought my Athlon(with it's 60GB hard drive), I used drivespace on a bunch of 1Gb drives on my K6-2 400, and when it worked fine, it worked fine for months, even years at a time, and I had a lot more extra space as a result(only up to 2GB though, due to fat16 limitations -- drivespace doesn't work wiht fat32). When it failed though, lord help you, because it failed HARD.

Quote:"DriveSpaced"

Don't. Just don't.

Space these days is $1/GB. You can get an old 20 or 40 for under $50... why would you take the performance and hit and incur the risk?

Thanks!!! I won't do it. :*)

But it's a lil har to find an HD <20Gig in size here. :*(

What are my options?

If you can't buy <20 Gigs, buy 20 Gigs

But the darn computer can't detect the darn HD. :*(

Then use an overlay, like EZ-BIOS. It should come with any Maxtor HDD.