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- NormW · March 31st 06, 02:26 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general

Thank you very much. I'll give it a try.
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NormW

"Jay" wrote:

go to www.bootdisk.com and download a win98 boot disk, or make a boot disk
which has 4 files: io.sys; msdos.sys; drvspace.bin; scandisk.exe. You will
also need to add a drvspace.ini file to the boot disk, sample below:

AutoMount=1
FirstDrive=D
LastDrive=E
MaxRemovableDrives=2
MaxFileFragments=101
ActivateDrive=D,E0

The above will load drive D: with the compressed info, and use drive E: as
the host. Adjust to suit your system.
You will need to boot the floppy after you have attached the hard drive to a
working computer. Once the OS loads, type scandisk /mount D: (or whatever
letter your compressed drive is in the computer). That will mount the
compressed disk and make the files accessible. Copy them to your new hard
drive.

You will lose the long file names but this is the quickest and easiest way
to access the data. Otherwise, install it in a working Win98 system.

"NormW" - wrote in message
...
My daughters PC, which was running windows 98, recently died. The machine
had
one small hard drive which was compressed using drivespace 3. I need to
recover her college research papers which are stored on this hard drive. I
can take the drive out of her machine and temporarily install it on my
Windows XP machine and see the compressed volume file but I cannot access
any
of the individual files compressed within it. Does anyone know of a
method
to recover the individual files without my having access to a windows 98
machine