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Recovering Drivespace 3 compressed disks
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 |
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Recovering Drivespace 3 compressed disks
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 |
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"Jay" wrote in message ... 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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Recovering Drivespace 3 compressed disks
Thank you very much. I'll give it a try.
-- 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 |
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Recovering Drivespace 3 compressed disks
Thank you. What happens if XP is on an NTFS partition on the C Drive.
-- NormW "philo" wrote: "Jay" wrote in message ... 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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Recovering Drivespace 3 compressed disks
- NormW wrote:
Thank you. What happens if XP is on an NTFS partition on the C Drive. a win9x bootdisk cannot access an NTFS partition.. but you could at least copy a little data from the compressed drive to the host... then boot to XP and move the data off the host drive which willb e readable but depending on the size of the host...prob not much data could be copied there |
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