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Subject: Re: Silly question

Author: Roger D Davis

Date: 17:49:02 07/26/05

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On July 26, 2005 at 03:44:35, William Sorin wrote:

>A friend told me that you can compress a 40 gig hardrive to just one 700mb CD
>using Norton Ghost, I thought this would be completely impossible. But he claims
>this is a Standard Operation. Is he nuts or am I silly for not knowing what he
>alleges to be common?

You get massive compression where the original files contain redundant
information. The more redundant, the better the compression.

But if you have a lot of pictures and mp3s...going from 40 gig to 700mb just
won't happen.

Roger



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