compressed hard drive with drivespace?

[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.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

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.

Windows XP does not support the reading of the Windows 9x compressed formats
(e.g. DriveSpace)

You will need to find a Windows 9x machine and uncompress the data and
transfer to the Windows XP machine.

--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP-Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://www.mvps.org