Drivespace compressed disk vs WinEP

[Marty Roberts]

I have a disk that was compressed with Win95 drivespace.
I now use WinXP and MSWord 2000 and cannot bring up the
files except a "Read this" file that says disk must
be "Mounted" and go to drivespace to do this, but WinXP
Accessories, Tools does not seem to include the
Drivespace feature. How can I bring up these files or
are they lost forever?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You will need to decompress it with a Win95 system before you can read it in
an XP system. WinXP cannot handle this drive compression.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a disk that was compressed with Win95 drivespace.
I now use WinXP and MSWord 2000 and cannot bring up the
files except a "Read this" file that says disk must
be "Mounted" and go to drivespace to do this, but WinXP
Accessories, Tools does not seem to include the
Drivespace feature.

That was a DOS mode, 16 bit driver that is prohibited in XP> All you
can do is mount the disk on a Win98 machine that does have Drivespace,
extract the files, and transfer them in some other way (eg burn to a CD)