>up to 16GB? I know there's some kind of way (in VPC somewhere) of
>compressing them. If I recall correctly, you first do a defrag inside
>the VM, then there's some external tool which makes the file smaller
>somehow. I could use a refresher on that process, but even after all
>that, I'd still like to zip the final file to get the optimal
>compression. Even an external 500GB drive seems to fill up easily these
>days :(
>I know you could say this isn't a Virtual PC problem (but please don't).
>
>I'm trying to archive some of my rarely used VHD files to a USB drive
>and I've noticed that VHD files compress quite well (using XP's "send to
>compressed folder"). I've seen the zip files come out between 33% and
>50%, which if you're arching 100GB's worth of VHDs is very nice saving.
>
>Unfortunately, there's a well known and MS-admitted problem with files
>over 2GB that they can become corrupted, so it won't even try and create
>them.
>
>Does anyone know of a way to compress my larger VHDs that range from 2GB
>up to 16GB? I know there's some kind of way (in VPC somewhere) of
>compressing them. If I recall correctly, you first do a defrag inside
>the VM, then there's some external tool which makes the file smaller
>somehow. I could use a refresher on that process, but even after all
>that, I'd still like to zip the final file to get the optimal
>compression. Even an external 500GB drive seems to fill up easily these
>days :(

>I know you could say this isn't a Virtual PC problem (but please don't).
>
>I'm trying to archive some of my rarely used VHD files to a USB drive
>and I've noticed that VHD files compress quite well (using XP's "send to
>compressed folder"). I've seen the zip files come out between 33% and
>50%, which if you're arching 100GB's worth of VHDs is very nice saving.
>
>Unfortunately, there's a well known and MS-admitted problem with files
>over 2GB that they can become corrupted, so it won't even try and create
>them.
>
>Does anyone know of a way to compress my larger VHDs that range from 2GB
>up to 16GB? I know there's some kind of way (in VPC somewhere) of
>compressing them. If I recall correctly, you first do a defrag inside
>the VM, then there's some external tool which makes the file smaller
>somehow. I could use a refresher on that process, but even after all
>that, I'd still like to zip the final file to get the optimal
>compression. Even an external 500GB drive seems to fill up easily these
>days :(

> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:38:30 +0100, d d <(email address - cut out)>
> wrote:
>
>> I know you could say this isn't a Virtual PC problem (but please don't).
>>
>> I'm trying to archive some of my rarely used VHD files to a USB drive
>> and I've noticed that VHD files compress quite well (using XP's "send to
>> compressed folder"). I've seen the zip files come out between 33% and
>> 50%, which if you're arching 100GB's worth of VHDs is very nice saving.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there's a well known and MS-admitted problem with files
>> over 2GB that they can become corrupted, so it won't even try and create
>> them.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way to compress my larger VHDs that range from 2GB
>> up to 16GB? I know there's some kind of way (in VPC somewhere) of
>> compressing them. If I recall correctly, you first do a defrag inside
>> the VM, then there's some external tool which makes the file smaller
>> somehow. I could use a refresher on that process, but even after all
>> that, I'd still like to zip the final file to get the optimal
>> compression. Even an external 500GB drive seems to fill up easily these
>> days :(
>
> WinRAR? Doesn't have near the limitations of ZIP.