drvspace

[clove72531]

I have compressed floppys (in windows 95) I now have
windows XP and it tells me to go to drvspace and mount.
however, XP has np drvspace is there a download or other
method to uncompress these disks?
Thank You
Charlie

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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I have compressed floppys (in windows 95) I now have
windows XP and it tells me to go to drvspace and mount.
however, XP has np drvspace is there a download or other
method to uncompress these disks?

No. You have to read and uncompress them in a Windows 9x machine,
then move them to XP.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Cannot Restore Backups That You Create in Windows 95, Windows 98,
or Windows Me with the Windows XP Ntbackup Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305381

You may have success restoring Win 9X backups (.qic files)
with Stomp BackupMYPC (formerly Veritas Backup Exec),

There's a 30 day free trial, so try it out!

http://www.stompinc.com/trial/index.phtml

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| I have compressed floppys (in windows 95) I now have
| windows XP and it tells me to go to drvspace and mount.
| however, XP has np drvspace is there a download or other
| method to uncompress these disks?
| Thank You
| Charlie

 

[Pavel]

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.

 

[CS]

I have compressed floppys (in windows 95) I now have
windows XP and it tells me to go to drvspace and mount.
however, XP has np drvspace is there a download or other
method to uncompress these disks?
Thank You
Charlie

No other method. Uncompress the disks in a system that has drvspace
installed just like XP told you to do.

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

Carey. Please read and UNDERSTAND this.

Drive Space (a compression technology) has absolutely nothing - zero -
nada - zilch to do with the links you so frequently post for this question
regarding backups!

An MVP?

INDEED!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard