Mounting DoubleSpace diskette created in W98

Have WinXP Home. Attempting to "Mount" a diskette created by W98 DoubleSpace
but cannot find any referrence to DoubleSpace in Win Help. Nor any
referrence to DoubleSpace in Control Panel Add/Remove Windows Programs.

Any assistance appreciated, ASAP.
Thanks
SiMahDan

Bruce
Wed Jun 25 18:39:43 PDT 2008

Daniel K. Smyth wrote:
> Have WinXP Home. Attempting to "Mount" a diskette created by W98 DoubleSpace
> but cannot find any referrence to DoubleSpace in Win Help. Nor any
> referrence to DoubleSpace in Control Panel Add/Remove Windows Programs.
>


Nor will you. WinXP has no support for DoubleSpace. You'll need to
find a Win98 machine to get any files off that diskette.


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VanguardLH
Wed Jun 25 22:58:30 PDT 2008

"Daniel K. Smyth" wrote in <news:#1vtPty1IHA.4704@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>:

> Have WinXP Home. Attempting to "Mount" a diskette created by W98 DoubleSpace
> but cannot find any referrence to DoubleSpace in Win Help. Nor any
> referrence to DoubleSpace in Control Panel Add/Remove Windows Programs.
>
> Any assistance appreciated, ASAP.
> Thanks
> SiMahDan

DoubleSpace was a compression algorithm. Windows XP has no support for
DoubleSpace.

Do you still own a copy of Windows 98 (that you can install; i.e., not
an upgrade unless you have a prior version from which to upgrade)? If
so, install it inside a virtual machine. You can use either VMWare
Server or Virtual PC (both are free).

Twayne
Thu Jun 26 10:39:35 PDT 2008

> "Daniel K. Smyth" wrote in
> <news:#1vtPty1IHA.4704@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>:
>
>> Have WinXP Home. Attempting to "Mount" a diskette created by W98
>> DoubleSpace but cannot find any referrence to DoubleSpace in Win
>> Help. Nor any referrence to DoubleSpace in Control Panel Add/Remove
>> Windows Programs.
>>
>> Any assistance appreciated, ASAP.
>> Thanks
>> SiMahDan
>
> DoubleSpace was a compression algorithm. Windows XP has no support
> for DoubleSpace.
>
> Do you still own a copy of Windows 98 (that you can install; i.e., not
> an upgrade unless you have a prior version from which to upgrade)? If
> so, install it inside a virtual machine. You can use either VMWare
> Server or Virtual PC (both are free).

You might try looking around at bootdisk.com I think it is, and get a
boot disk (use a CD actually; make it bootable) for win98 which
contains the ability to read the dblspace file and uncompress them.
Boot frm it, uncompress them.