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Old March 20th 06, 07:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default 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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Old March 20th 06, 08:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Surely someone you know has a W98 machine because you are going to need one.
You don't even have to mount the drive--attach it to CDRom ribbon cable,
make sure the jumper pins are right and sit the drive on its end while you
extract the files.

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"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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Old March 30th 06, 08:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default 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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Old March 31st 06, 01:49 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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"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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Old March 31st 06, 02:26 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default 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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Old March 31st 06, 02:27 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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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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Old March 31st 06, 10:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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- 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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