mounting doublespaced drives under Windows XP

[Chris Carr]

I have some old floppies that are full of files which were
compressed using the old Doublespace program. I can't get
them opened under Win XP, there is only 1 file shown on
the disk which tells me to go to a command line and
type "dblspace/mount", which of course doesn't work under
XP.

Any ideas how to get around this? I do not have access to
a computer which has the old dblspace command available.

Thanks-
Chris Carr

[Sir_George]

Chris,

Windows XP does not recognize the compression format used by Double Space.
You need to expand the files with a version of Windows that supports Double
Space and then, if you want to use compression formatting, choose WinZip or
a similar program and copy them to floppy or CD.

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Sir_George
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"Chris Carr" > wrote in message
...
> I have some old floppies that are full of files which were
> compressed using the old Doublespace program. I can't get
> them opened under Win XP, there is only 1 file shown on
> the disk which tells me to go to a command line and
> type "dblspace/mount", which of course doesn't work under
> XP.
>
> Any ideas how to get around this? I do not have access to
> a computer which has the old dblspace command available.
>
> Thanks-
> Chris Carr