How To Make A Maxi Image?

[Farshid420]

Grumpy, maybe I'm missing something, but nothing happens when I do that... "Size on disk" only goes down by about 15 megs... still got a huge mdf file here :/

[Muji-FightR]

Compressiion rate always depends on the stuff you want to compress, images often cant be compressed by 50%, so the megs you might save can be only around 15...
btw, Windows just compresses if the file is used very rare, if its frequently used, Windose wont compress it as it would take too much time to decompress everytime you use it again

[Farshid420]

Ok, so here's my question again: How do you make a Maxi MINI image, like the ones on GCW, that are a few hundred kb at most, yet can be used in place of an original image to play a game without the original CD? Please try to be as detailed as possible

[pc84]

This is what i do to make a maxi-image :

I open a mdf file with Winhex,and i click on edit/fill the file,make sure there is 00 in the box and click on OK button.Wait during operation and save the file.

BUT when i do that,when i mount the image,Windows say me that the disc is unreadable !

I've missed something ?

[Diranar]

I want to know thsi too, there must be a trick or some Data that HAS to be on DIsc, maybe if you let the first 150KB untouched?

[ShizoFraen]

Can somebody make a Tutorial, plz
How about a tut, how to make a mini image with a hexeditor

[BarryB]

Windows Compression is probably referring to the built in compression for the NTFS files system in Windows XP/2K/2K3, so you can only use this if you have XP/2K/2K3 and an NTFS partition!

This allows you to compress a single file, many files, a folder/s or a whole drive! I believe that files are still uncompressed (but in memory) so you don't need any extra HD space as it just reads part of the file to memory when needed, ideal for those GigaByte sized images!