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Drivespace - Problem
Name: Alex Date: January 29, 1999 at 03:48:18 Pacific
Comment:
A colleague of mine has compressed his hard disk but is left now with one file DRIVESPACE.000, it is over 1Gb in size so I assume this contains the contents of the hard disk. How can I reverse this?
Name: Paul Date: January 29, 1999 at 04:02:24 Pacific
Reply:
The Drivespace.000 file is indeed the CVF (Compressed Volume File) and contains the data on the hard disk. In order for the data to be useable the disk needs to be mounted. The base OS ie Dos is not compressed and should still operate. To access Drivespace.000 use the drivespace command Mount and specify the drive letter. Generally I would advise anyone not to use Drivespace I have lost the contents of a disk and rendered it Unformattable due to drivespace, it also causes extra wear on the heads and slows down system performance. Best plan is to buy a bigger HD!
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Response Number 2
Name: Bruce Date: January 29, 1999 at 10:27:06 Pacific
Reply:
Paul's right, but it should be called Drive Destroyer.
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Response Number 3
Name: RENE RAMDIN Date: December 17, 1999 at 20:44:37 Pacific
Reply:
I WAS UPGRADING THE MOTHERBORDOF A SYSTEM.THE OLD ONE KEPT REBOOTING.IT WAS A 386.THE NEW ONE IS ASUS RUNNING AT100MHZ BUS AND AMD450. AFTER TRANSFERING THE DRIVE I GOT INVALID SYSTEMS DISK.SO I BOOTED FROM DRIVE A TO HAVE A LOOK SEE ON C-DRIVE ALL I GOT WAS MSDOS VOL AND THE SIZE OF SPACE ON C USED.i LOOKED WITH A SOFT WARE RECOVERY TOOL CALLED RESCUE AND COULD SEE MSDOS.1 AND MS DOS .2 IM FIGURING AN H DRIVE AND THE COMPRESSION. I HAVE NOT TRIED TO DO ANY THING WWITH THE DRIVE AS YET FOR FEAR OF LOSING CONTENTS I JUST WANT TO RECOVER CONTENTS TO ANOTHER DRIVE AND GET RID OF THAT COMPRESSON.QUESTION HOW DO I GET A SYSTEM ON THAT C DRIVE SAFELY RENE
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Response Number 4
Name: yeop Date: December 18, 1999 at 20:53:38 Pacific
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hi I got an error message when I start up my computer that says the Drivespace vxd and the drivespace real mode driver are mismatched. how do I fix this problem?
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Response Number 5
Name: h j myers Date: April 25, 2000 at 20:18:58 Pacific
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Under Win95B: Using partition magic I converted my C-drive from FAT16 to FAT32. My compressed Edisk (via drivespace 3) is no longer accessable, though it's still there. DRVSPACE.001 is there, but my drive list shows C: D: F: C is host to E, D is host to F in DRVSPACE.INI There must be a bit somewhere ... When I tried mounting it, I was given H as the only possible name, and then got a system check. Other strange thing: some programs, like Quicken (DOS version) can access data, and shortcut Icons resident on E disk are still presented. Other references to E disk data give report: Network drive not available.
Summary: On booting Win95 (upgraded to +), I get a DriveSpace VxD Mismatch error. This began to occur after I uploaded Netscape Communicator and Internet Boost 99. The Internet Boost 99 says it is not their ...
Summary: Don't e-mail me, I just trash them. But, your first mistake was using DriveSpace, it's junk, trash, garbage, doo-doo and a leftover from when HD's were tiny and Microsoft hasn't caught on yet. Get a l...
Summary: I ran into this following problem the two days ago, and am completely stuck.... I was using DriveSpace to compress a drive, and my computer became stuck in a reboot (or restart) loop. If I press the F...
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