Drivespace conversion

[Mike]

The HDD from my Win 95 system had a Drivespace compressed
drive. I installed (or had the store install) that drive
as a d: on my new XP system, expecting to be able to copy
files from it to the new c:. Now, I've learned easier
said than done. Anyone know of a utility that can "see"
the Drivespace files so I can copy them elsewhere?

[Nicholas]

You may have success restoring Win 95/98/ME backups (.qic)
with Stomp BackupMYPC (formerly Veritas Backup Exec)

There's a 30 day trial available. Try it!

http://www.stompinc.com/trial/index.phtml


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Nicholas

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"Mike" > wrote in message:
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| The HDD from my Win 95 system had a Drivespace compressed=20
| drive. I installed (or had the store install) that drive=20
| as a d: on my new XP system, expecting to be able to copy=20
| files from it to the new c:. Now, I've learned easier=20
| said than done. Anyone know of a utility that can "see"=20
| the Drivespace files so I can copy them elsewhere?

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Mike" > wrote in message
...
> The HDD from my Win 95 system had a Drivespace compressed
> drive. I installed (or had the store install) that drive
> as a d: on my new XP system, expecting to be able to copy
> files from it to the new c:. Now, I've learned easier
> said than done. Anyone know of a utility that can "see"
> the Drivespace files so I can copy them elsewhere?

A Windows 95 startup disk has DriveSpace on it. The MS-DOS on the
startup disk can access the DriveSpace drive but cannot access the
C: drive if it has NTFS. If you have enough space on the compressed
drive, you can decompress it. You may have to decompress in stages
and move the decompressed files if you do not have enough space on
the compressed drive to decompress all the files at once. You would
then boot into Windows XP to move the files and repeat the process
until all the files are recovered.

You can download a Windows 95 boot disk from http://www.bootdisk.com
if you cannot create one locally.

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Earl F. Parrish

[Crusty \(-: Old Bastard :-\)]

That will NOT help him see a drive that is compressed with "drive space".
Guess you weren't around when drive space was. The drive must be mounted,
and then decompressed, using Windows 98.

"Nicholas" > wrote in message
...
You may have success restoring Win 95/98/ME backups (.qic)
with Stomp BackupMYPC (formerly Veritas Backup Exec)

There's a 30 day trial available. Try it!

http://www.stompinc.com/trial/index.phtml


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Nicholas

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"Mike" > wrote in message:
...

| The HDD from my Win 95 system had a Drivespace compressed
| drive. I installed (or had the store install) that drive
| as a d: on my new XP system, expecting to be able to copy
| files from it to the new c:. Now, I've learned easier
| said than done. Anyone know of a utility that can "see"
| the Drivespace files so I can copy them elsewhere?

[Mike]

Thanks, Earl. I downloaded the file. What do I do with
it - copy to a floppy and boot it?

Mike
>-----Original Message-----
>
>"Mike" > wrote in message
...
>> The HDD from my Win 95 system had a Drivespace
compressed
>> drive. I installed (or had the store install) that
drive
>> as a d: on my new XP system, expecting to be able to
copy
>> files from it to the new c:. Now, I've learned easier
>> said than done. Anyone know of a utility that
can "see"
>> the Drivespace files so I can copy them elsewhere?
>
>A Windows 95 startup disk has DriveSpace on it. The MS-
DOS on the
>startup disk can access the DriveSpace drive but cannot
access the
>C: drive if it has NTFS. If you have enough space on
the compressed
>drive, you can decompress it. You may have to
decompress in stages
>and move the decompressed files if you do not have
enough space on
>the compressed drive to decompress all the files at
once. You would
>then boot into Windows XP to move the files and repeat
the process
>until all the files are recovered.
>
>You can download a Windows 95 boot disk from
http://www.bootdisk.com
>if you cannot create one locally.
>
>--
>Earl F. Parrish
>
>.
>

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Mike" > wrote in message
...
> Thanks, Earl. I downloaded the file. What do I do with
> it - copy to a floppy and boot it?
>
> Mike
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >"Mike" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> The HDD from my Win 95 system had a Drivespace
> compressed
> >> drive. I installed (or had the store install) that
> drive
> >> as a d: on my new XP system, expecting to be able to
> copy
> >> files from it to the new c:. Now, I've learned easier
> >> said than done. Anyone know of a utility that
> can "see"
> >> the Drivespace files so I can copy them elsewhere?
> >
> >A Windows 95 startup disk has DriveSpace on it. The MS-
> DOS on the
> >startup disk can access the DriveSpace drive but cannot
> access the
> >C: drive if it has NTFS. If you have enough space on
> the compressed
> >drive, you can decompress it. You may have to
> decompress in stages
> >and move the decompressed files if you do not have
> enough space on
> >the compressed drive to decompress all the files at
> once. You would
> >then boot into Windows XP to move the files and repeat
> the process
> >until all the files are recovered.
> >
> >You can download a Windows 95 boot disk from
> http://www.bootdisk.com
> >if you cannot create one locally.
> >
> >--
> >Earl F. Parrish
> >
> >.
> >

Execute the file and it will tell you what to do.

--
Earl F. Parrish

[Peter Hutchison]

On Sat, 10 May 2003 09:25:53 -0700, "Mike" > wrote:

>The HDD from my Win 95 system had a Drivespace compressed
>drive. I installed (or had the store install) that drive
>as a d: on my new XP system, expecting to be able to copy
>files from it to the new c:. Now, I've learned easier
>said than done. Anyone know of a utility that can "see"
>the Drivespace files so I can copy them elsewhere?

Yes, boot off the 95 system and run drivespace to uncompress the drive
then XP can see the files.

Peter
Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/winfaqs.html