compressed hard drive not showing all partitions?

[Brett Baxter]

I'm taking the data file contents of my old box (win95, 3.2gb hd) to my new
box (winxp, 80gb hd) and was trying to just hook up my old hard drive in the
new machine set as a slave. It worked fine as far as recognizing the drive,
except that the old drive was compressed using drivespace (I believe) and on
the new machine, the only thing that I could get at was the "Host for C:"
drive partitions from the old drive. Is there a way for those other
partitions to show up when hooked to my new pc without first decompressing
the old drive?

Why wouldn't I be able to see all the "partitions" on the old drive?

Please help.

 

[Michael Stevens]

I'm taking the data file contents of my old box (win95, 3.2gb hd) to
my new box (winxp, 80gb hd) and was trying to just hook up my old
hard drive in the new machine set as a slave. It worked fine as far
as recognizing the drive, except that the old drive was compressed
using drivespace (I believe) and on the new machine, the only thing
that I could get at was the "Host for C:" drive partitions from the
old drive. Is there a way for those other partitions to show up when
hooked to my new pc without first decompressing the old drive?

Why wouldn't I be able to see all the "partitions" on the old drive?

Please help.

You will have to access the information from the compressed hard drive from
a system running 95, XP does not support the compression used for 95. Do not
make any changes to the hard drive or your data will be lost.
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[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

Drive Space creates something like a "virtual" drive that Windows XP can not
see. Windows XP has it's own type of file compression. If you want to use
the files on the 80 gig drive, you will have to connect it to a Win9x
machine and dismount the drive as per the normal instructions for Drive
Space.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard