Well ive got a problem here... i think its all solved by myself by now but theres still one thing... i compressed a drive in win98 so there came another drive "H" as a host for C: . Now i just gotta know how to "restore" the partition... like theres no more H: (no more host) and just the drive C: ... Can u help plz? i wanna get my computer back alive, back to win98...

This actually has more to do with Windows than DOS.

Compressed drives are not partitions, just a 'Compressed Volume File' (CVF) - a very big file that is interpreted as a drive - and also something that should be avoided like the plague, as the likelihood of problems is large.

You need to 'uncompress' the drive - should be an option in Windows, although if there is insufficent space, you'll need to free some up.

Give me ambiguity or give me something else

Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal

Thnx... but only problem is... my pc crashed and lets dont make it a long story of it... i had to format my drive with windows on it... and now he wont reinstall it and i guess its because of that compression

"lets dont make it a long story of it""

Fine by me - post in the Win9x section maybe - although " i had to format my drive with windows on it.." & "i think its all solved by myself by now but theres still one thing." defies ready understanding.

Give me ambiguity or give me something else

Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal

Well... only thing to do is give me the name of a program or so that lets me decompress C: from dos

I really wish I knew exactly what you're talking about, but your attempts to illuminate do more harm than good.

Fdisk and start over maybe? I have no idea as to the condition of this disk, other than you managed to compress & format it (somehow) - if so, nothing to lose

Give me ambiguity or give me something else

Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal

Ok... i already tried a number of things on Fdisk but somehow i didnt manage. could you please tell me what to do on Fdisk?
I got 1 disk C: (thats the compressed one wich also wont format and it has got games on it) and the other D: (had windows on it... I formatted it and tried to reinstall windows... it didnt work... it had to reboot after install but my problem was that it wont boot so i got a boot disk and then formatted D:)
Thanx a lot for trying to help me and sorry I dont talk so clearly about it

http://www.hexff.com/win98_install.php

M2

Another reasom to not use drive compression.

As if another was needed.

M2

Back in the day I found Stacker4 to be not bad, as far as those things go - better than the drvspace/dblspace mess anyways. Still a risky business, and the worst thing to do ever is to compress the entire C: drive, because it can be a nightmare to undo (if at all).

FAT32 drives can't be compressed - this must be a tiny FAT16 disk or partition

Anyways, afaik, there is no DOS tool to uncompress a Windows Drvspace 3 volume, assuming that's what this is.

It's not clear if C: and D: are different physical drives or just partitions on the same drive. If D: is an actual drive, then just go ahead and remove the partition on C: using fdisk - it won't do anything to the 2nd drive (unless you get them mixed up)

Not really sure of much here - if there is data on the drive, one prospect might be to slave it in a Windows system (with drive compression installed as an option) and see if sense can be made of the mess.

Otherwise, lesson learned and cut your losses - start over completely.

Give me ambiguity or give me something else

Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal

Yup,

Stacker was about as good as it got.

M2