hello nick maybe this will work
pull out the hdd from your 486 with the PCI and install it in the other 486 pc unhide the drvspace.ini file in your other 486 pc by this command : attrib -s -h -r drvspace.ini then edit that txt file .. the drvspace.ini file by adding the line : ActivateDrive=F,D0 also increase the lastdrive to F this should get the drvspace.000 file on that hard-disk loaded as a drive you could backup the data, programs,etc and then format that hdd altogether now you can run your win95 and run the drvspace program and create a new compressed drive on that other hdd unfortunately win95 upwards do not allow creating compressed drive from command.line after creating the drvspace.000 compressed drive on that hdd .. you will need to also transfer the system there .. and most importantly the drvspace.ini file there should give you an empty blank hdd with a compressed drive too if that is made master and the other one the slave or secondary master (you may have that possibility on the 486 with pci slots) .. you can copy back the backed up data .. programs and win95 will need to be reloaded of course ..pk > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 01:52:52 -0500 (CDT) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Dalzell) > Subject: +[] Windows 95 won't load after using Drivespace to compress drive C > > Dear List, > > I have been given at least 2 more 486's! Both of them have small HD's, > and needed DriveSpace installed...Both systems have 16MB RAM, and one of > them is PCI-based! (Ever heard of a 486 w/ a PCI BUS???) Well, the PCI > 486 is duff after installing drivespace 3 on it and compressing Drive > C:! The other PC runs fine after running DriveSpace! The bad one, after > drivespace reboots, reports this error: > > "Insuffiecient memory to initialize windows, try removing real-mode > drivers from your configuration files and try restarting.." > > Press any key to continue <snipped> To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
