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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.
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Pavel
"R. Thomas Berner" <RThomasBerner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:482979B3-7449-47D5-9125-0B8129ED8AAD@microsoft.com...
> This may be a really naive question, but would it be possible to load
> Windows
> 98 on my current computer (9 months old) and then run drvspace. I too have
> compress zip disks that I want to read.
>
> "Thomas Wendell" wrote:
>
>> If it's Win98 DriveSpace you're talking about, there is no support in
>> WinXp
>> fot it. If you need to read from that disk, you have to find a Win98
>> machine
>> and copy the data to an uncompressed diskette.....
>>
>>
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>> "Kevin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> kirjoitti viestissä
>> news:27cfb01c463d9$ca629d50$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> > how do i mount a floppy in windows xp that has used drive
>> > space for compression? Then when i do munt the floppy, is
>> > it compatible with previous versions of windows?
>>
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