March 31st 06, 02:27 AM
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Recovering Drivespace 3 compressed disks
Thank you. What happens if XP is on an NTFS partition on the C Drive.
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NormW
"philo" wrote:
"Jay" wrote in message
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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.
That's a very clever solution and should work fine ...
but only if XP is on a Fat32 partition
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