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Old February 16th 07, 03:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Chris Watts
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My Windows 98SE machine has just failed after years of good service - BIOS
problem I think.
I have removed its hard drive, fitted it into a usb enclosure and connected
it to my XP Pro laptop.
The drive has several partitions on it, most of which are FAT32 or FAT -
these are all readable.
But one partition has been compressed using drvspace and this is, of course,
not readable directly by XP.
Is there any way that I can read it and copy off the data (about 2 GB)? I
no longer have access to a working 98 machine.

TIA
Chris


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Old February 16th 07, 08:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
philo
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"Chris Watts" wrote in message
...
My Windows 98SE machine has just failed after years of good service - BIOS
problem I think.
I have removed its hard drive, fitted it into a usb enclosure and

connected
it to my XP Pro laptop.
The drive has several partitions on it, most of which are FAT32 or FAT -
these are all readable.
But one partition has been compressed using drvspace and this is, of

course,
not readable directly by XP.
Is there any way that I can read it and copy off the data (about 2 GB)?

I
no longer have access to a working 98 machine.




I don't know any way of reading it from XP...
however if you clear off enough space on one of the other partitions on the
drive...
you can bootup with a win98 floppy (one which loads the comprssion driver of
course)
then copy the data off the compressed volume to another partiton


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Old February 18th 07, 11:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Chris Watts
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Default Compressed drives

"philo" wrote in message
...

"Chris Watts" wrote in message
...
My Windows 98SE machine has just failed after years of good service -
BIOS
problem I think.
I have removed its hard drive, fitted it into a usb enclosure and

connected
it to my XP Pro laptop.
The drive has several partitions on it, most of which are FAT32 or FAT -
these are all readable.
But one partition has been compressed using drvspace and this is, of

course,
not readable directly by XP.
Is there any way that I can read it and copy off the data (about 2 GB)?

I
no longer have access to a working 98 machine.




I don't know any way of reading it from XP...
however if you clear off enough space on one of the other partitions on
the
drive...
you can bootup with a win98 floppy (one which loads the comprssion driver
of
course)
then copy the data off the compressed volume to another partiton

Thanks for that idea - I will investgate further.
There are some problems though. My XP laptop doesn't have a floppy. My
98desktop does but that is the one that is giving problems. If do what you
suggest (booting from a floppy) surely a USB-attached drive will not be
readable?

What would happen if I just copy drvspace onto my XP machine and run it from
a command prompt? Would that trash anything?

TIA
Chris


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Old February 18th 07, 12:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
philo
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Default Compressed drives




I don't know any way of reading it from XP...
however if you clear off enough space on one of the other partitions on
the
drive...
you can bootup with a win98 floppy (one which loads the comprssion

driver
of
course)
then copy the data off the compressed volume to another partiton

Thanks for that idea - I will investgate further.
There are some problems though. My XP laptop doesn't have a floppy. My
98desktop does but that is the one that is giving problems. If do what

you
suggest (booting from a floppy) surely a USB-attached drive will not be
readable?

What would happen if I just copy drvspace onto my XP machine and run it

from
a command prompt? Would that trash anything?



You'd need to boot from a floppy...
a standard win98 boot floppy should automatically be able to see the
compressed volume...
Before you go out and get a USB floppy you should check to see if your
laptop
could even boot from one.

of course would not be able to see the HD in your XP machine (assuming it's
NTFS)

so you would have to copy the data to one of the other partitons on the
drive removed from your win98 machine.

BTW: I think an external USB floppy would be about $50 or so...
you may be better off just purchasing an old desktop machine at a 2nd hand
store...
probably $10


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Old February 18th 07, 04:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Chris Watts
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Default Compressed drives

"philo" wrote in message
...



I don't know any way of reading it from XP...
however if you clear off enough space on one of the other partitions on
the
drive...
you can bootup with a win98 floppy (one which loads the comprssion

driver
of
course)
then copy the data off the compressed volume to another partiton

Thanks for that idea - I will investgate further.
There are some problems though. My XP laptop doesn't have a floppy. My
98desktop does but that is the one that is giving problems. If do what

you
suggest (booting from a floppy) surely a USB-attached drive will not be
readable?

What would happen if I just copy drvspace onto my XP machine and run it

from
a command prompt? Would that trash anything?



You'd need to boot from a floppy...
a standard win98 boot floppy should automatically be able to see the
compressed volume...
Before you go out and get a USB floppy you should check to see if your
laptop
could even boot from one.

of course would not be able to see the HD in your XP machine (assuming
it's
NTFS)

so you would have to copy the data to one of the other partitons on the
drive removed from your win98 machine.

BTW: I think an external USB floppy would be about $50 or so...
you may be better off just purchasing an old desktop machine at a 2nd hand
store...
probably $10

Thanks for that.
Trying to boot the old 98 machine from a floppy Ip ersuaded it to load
windows as well!! -So was able to copy off what I needed..
Thanks fo the advice.
Chris


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Old February 18th 07, 06:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
philo
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snip

Thanks for that.
Trying to boot the old 98 machine from a floppy Ip ersuaded it to load
windows as well!! -So was able to copy off what I needed..
Thanks fo the advice.
Chris



Glad you got your data saved now!!!!


 




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