Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
compression problem
Name: Joe Date: January 2, 2001 at 23:04:46 Pacific
Comment:
windows 95 was installed onto a 1 gig hdd but when i went into properties and to my surprise said the hard drive was 530 mb so i double checked and then reinstalled windows.It was still reading 530 mb and 1 gig in bios and on the hdd. I formatted it with a system disk and removed the partition i then tried to reinstall windows a used a win 98 startup disk so i couuld get the cd rom working. When i was aboput to install win95, in setup i then got a message explaining the space problem it was: "Setup has found a compressed volume or a disk - cache utility on your computer.Quit Setup and check your compressed volume with your disk compression software or remove the disk cache utility. Then run setup again." The problem is i dont want anything on the harddrive and i need the full gig so i dont want it to be compressd.How do i get rid of the compressed area on the disk i dont have any softweare to do this. Thanks in advance Joe.
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: January 2, 2001 at 23:17:12 Pacific
Reply:
Run fdisk and remove all existing partitons the repartiton as 1 partition. That should do it.
0
Response Number 2
Name: BuggeralL Date: January 2, 2001 at 23:41:40 Pacific
Reply:
if that doesnt' work, try this:
www.maxtor.com/softwaredownload/main/mtllf.exe
it's a low-level format utility and should recognize every hidden partition and take it out giving you back your space, best of luck!
-kelly
0
Response Number 3
Name: thegorx Date: January 3, 2001 at 01:29:01 Pacific
Reply:
A compressed drive is a Compressed Volume File (CVF) It is stored in the root directory of an uncompressed drive, the Host drive. The (CVF) attributes are Read-only Hidden System. Defragmenter doesn't move it . Microsoft (CVF) name will be something like: Drvspace.000 Dblspace.002
Summary: Can anybody tell how to fix a compressed file *.sit I have got some tools that work with the *.zip format, is there a tool for fixing *.sit files? The problem is a bad crc. Help, I have no other back ...
Summary: I try to compress the HDD on my Compaq Laptop LT5300 using Drive Space 3 in Windows 98. Always get error message that disk has errors and should scan disk. After doing that 2 - 3x without getting erro...
Summary: I have 3 hard drives in my computer. 1 was c: which held all of the programs and windows and nothinbg else. D: which held all thge files me and my family use and e: which was being used as virtual mem...
0 
Site
