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For the following to work, you will need a bootable diskette. DOS 6, Windows
95 or Windows98 formatted bootable diskette will do. If you do not have one,
you can download an image of such disk from
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm.
Can I open Drivespace with windows XP?
You can not but what you could do is create a bootable floppy that was
created with Win98. The floppy must contain DRVSPACE.BIN that is normally
placed there automatically with format /s. On the boot floppy create text
file called DRVSPACE.INI and insert following line in it:
ActivateDrive=P,B0
Assuming that your compressed disk is a floppy disk and you have one or two
floppy disk drives then the above
line will be correct. If your compressed drive is on hard disk or other
media then you need the change the drive letter from B to the corresponding
letter:
ActivateDrive=P,E0
Once booted, you can access your compressed drive normal ways. If the
compression used was Drivespace 2 then you can read/write to this drive. If
the compression used was Drivespace 3 then do not attempt to write to it.
The letter P in the above line represents the drive letter that will be
assigned to the noncompressed portion of the drive. If you already have
drive P then you should change it to any letter that is not in use.
The number after the source drive B0 represents the number found in the name
of the compressed image. So if the image name is DRVSPACE.000 then B0 is
used, if the name is DRVSPACE.003 then B3 must be used.
To access DriveSpace compressed floppy with only one floppy drive available,
after booting type B: <return>, you will be prompted to change the diskette.
--
Pavel
"Patrick Keenan" <test@dev.null> wrote in message
news:7GWIe.31871$pH4.1181908@news20.bellglobal.com...
> "Christopher" <Christopher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:23D9B4BA-440F-4941-BD88-B4C4514879E9@microsoft.com...
>>I have an old drive (from Win95) that has a compressed file
>>(drvspace.000).
>> I have the drive installed on a XP system. What is the process for
>> uncompressing that file so I can move it to XP? If I have to buy Win95
>> to
>> uncompress the file, would I be able to run 95 on my XP system hardware
>> (Pentium 4, 1GB, etc) to do the uncompress?
>> --
>> Christopher
>
> Is there data on that drive that you need? If so, yes, you're going to
> have to reinstall w95 to get to it, or better yet host that drive in
> another w95 system. Simply copy the data to another uncompressed drive,
> then wipe that disk, format it, do not compress it, and copy the data
> back. Then move that drive over to the XP system.
>
> If there's no data you need, just remove the partition and recreate a new
> one, and format it.
>
> HTH
> -pk
>
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