Pavel said:
For the following to work, you will need a bootable diskette. DOS 6, Windows
95 or Windows98 formatted bootable diskette will do. If you do not have one,
you can download an image of such disk from
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm.
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.
Well, I've tried this but to no avail. I have an old HDD--I think it is
Win95. I can't get it to mount. WHen I try to attach it to one of the IDE
cables with my dualbook Linux/W98 box, the box won't mount (can't find GRUB).
When I look at it from a different Linux box I can see its directory, but
if I try to copy it there is an error after a short while. The directory I
see is this:
[root@linserv copydisks]# ls
command.com dblspace.bin drvspace.bin io.dos msdos.--- msdos.sys
command.dos drvspace.000 drvspace.ini io.sys msdos.dos recycled
[root@linserv copydisks]# ls -al
total 164448
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 17 14:05 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 92870 Jul 11 1995 command.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54645 May 31 1994 command.dos
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 71287 Jul 11 1995 dblspace.bin
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 167744000 Jan 2 1980 drvspace.000
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 71287 Jul 11 1995 drvspace.bin
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 89 Dec 9 1995 drvspace.ini
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 40774 May 31 1994 io.dos
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 223148 Jul 11 1995 io.sys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22 Dec 9 1995 msdos.---
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 38138 May 31 1994 msdos.dos
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1641 Dec 12 1995 msdos.sys
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 10 1995 recycled
[root@linserv copydisks]#
When I try to use the directions given in the previous post here they don't
work. I may be doing it wrong. I'm assuming that if the troublesome HDD is on
the primary IDE cable, I should refer to it as C in setting up the
ActivateDrive command on the startup disk. When I start from the floppy and
try to CD to this drive, I get an "Invalid drive" message. I get the same
when I try to change to 'P:'.
I initially tried doing the procedure with a second HDD on the secondary IDE
connection. But then the computer treated it as drive C and I couldn't find
any way to activate the drivespace drive.
Thanks for any help.
