Using MS-DOS Drive Space on a tiny retro-sized hard drive build and the results.

Using MS-DOS Drive Space on a tiny retro-sized hard drive build and the results.

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Today we step back to the early 1990's when most of us had very small hard drives. We are talking from 120-200 MB in size.

Microsoft developed "hard drive doubling" software and included it in their more advanced versions of MS-DOS. In this video, I take a 128 MB compact flash drive, load it up with programs along with Windows 3.11, and then see how well Drive Space included in MS-DOS 6.22 compresses the drive and benchmark the results.

Index:
0:00 A little about hard drive prices over the years
1:46 Examining the 128 MB Compact Flash card and the test system
5:29 Scandisk of the compact flash drive and its contents. We have some bad clusters!
10:03 Installing Windows 3.11 and testing it
14:15 Benchmarking the drive before compression
17:34 Setting up and compressing the drive with Drive Space
24:24 Benchmarking the drive after compression
25:43 What did we gain?



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