Maximizing small hard drive space?

Harry Potter · Apr 18, 2013

I'm sorry for killing a dead horse, but I am still looking for an answer to this question: I have a Win98 computer with only 2.1GB total usable hard drive space. I created a 16MB RAM drive and compressed it with DriveSpace. I have some software compressed with 7-Zip--mostly DOS games--and been using batch files to temporarily decompress them to the RAM drive and delete the latter after use. I tried to use AppZip, but it doesn't work properly on this computer. I also used UPX to compress some executables. I can use floppies to store some information and may eventually be able to get a ZIP100 drive. Basically, I am looking for any way to maximize what hard drive space I have before I upgrade it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

USAFRet · Apr 18, 2013

Your main recourse would be to delete some old crap. I'm sure, on a 15 year old PC...there's a lot of old crap that can be offloaded.
You can, of course, get a larger HD. I have a similar vintage laptop with a 10GB HD. And I have a 6GB 3.5" IDE drive floating around somewhere.
Or find another 2.1GB HD...load the OS and 1/2 the games on it...OS and 1/2 the games on the other.

Or, you could pony up a couple hundred and join the 21st century. Sometimes, you just have to let the old stuff go.

I have a Dell PII/233 mhz machine (2.1GB HD) around, and it serves one purpose. To interface with the car OBDII cable. It's the only thing I have running that still has a serial port.

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