On 1999-03-11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>you might need to have DoubleSpace running on your PC anyway.
>From my experience, you do not need drivespace (dunno about doublespace, but
anyway DriveSpace was doublespace with a name change and some minor updates
for MSDOS 6.20), as I was saying you do not need DriveSpace running on a
certain PC. Just boot from a disk that has DRVSPACE.BIN on it, it will
search that HD for a DRVSPACE.000 volume and then try to mount it.
>it might insist on mounting that CVF as
>C: when you boot up.
I don't think so, as the DRVSPACE.BIN suffers no change when you create a
CVF.
>However, the last time I used DoubleSpace was
>the evening it scrambled my disk instead of creating a new volume.
I had a laptop (IBM PS/2) and one day I had the sad idea of installing
MSDOS 6.0 beta on it (it ran PC-DOS 5.0 from IBM). I created a doublespaced
drive, OK. Now for the bad news: it wouldn't let me install any other
version of MS-DOS on it (nor MSDOS 6.0 in English being it for update or for
fresh installs, neither 6.20 nor 6.22, either update or new install, either
English or POrtuguese), because it said something like "You must run a
special update program from MS". The thing got to a stage where I coyuldn't
even un-compress my HD! BVlaarrrgggg! Even with DOS MS was bull sh*t!
Best wishes,
Rodrigo Santos - Loures, Portugal
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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