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Conference noted::windows95

Title:	Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago")
Notice:	Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything
Moderator:	EEMELI::BACKSTROM

Created:	Mon Nov 14 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2958
Total number of notes:	19968

2852.0. "Need Utility to Read DOUBLESPACE.000" by PRMS01::HCARTER (M. Hill Carter @DTN 339-7781) Mon Mar 17 1997 12:54

    Recently I moved two disk drives to a new PC. Following the
    move one of my drives, the Windows 95 system disk, failed.
    The second disk, my data disk, is a Windows 95 compressed volume.
    By hooking this disk up to another Windows 95 PC I was able to
    pull the file DOUBLESPACE.000, which I assume is the compressed
    volume, off of the data disk. However, I have not been able to find
    a way to read this file. Does anyone know of a utility which I
    can use to pull files out of DOUBLESPACE.000 ?
    
    Thank you in advance for any help,
    
    Hill...

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2852.1		TARKIN::LIN	Bill Lin	`Mon Mar 17 1997 14:18`	6
	re: PRMS01::HCARTER Why didn't you just read the contents of the compressed volume using the Win95 machine? /Bill
2852.2	Try using DRVSPACE to mount the compressed volume file.	snooty.uvo.dec.com::TRAVELL	John T, UK VMS System Support	`Tue Mar 18 1997 12:43`	8
	I had a disk go south, and like you I lost the drvspace.ini file (on the dead disk), I just asked drivespace to mount the compressed volume.... I remember looking at, but not having to fiddle with, the content of DRVSPACE.INI. It is a simple text file, with ther name of the cvf and the drive letter it represents... JT:
2852.3	Just Run The DriveSpace Utility	PRMS01::HCARTER	M. Hill Carter @DTN 339-7781	`Mon Mar 24 1997 13:37`	6
	I found my own answer. All I had to do was mount the file using the DriveSpace utility which is under system utilities. I believe you have to install Plus to get this utility. Hill...
2852.4		TARKIN::LIN	Bill Lin	`Mon Mar 24 1997 15:33`	8
	re: .3 by PRMS01::HCARTER >> I believe you have to install Plus to get this utility. I think Plus just gives you Drivespace 3 with the higher compression levels. Drivespace (standard) is already in Win95. /Bill