Franc
Tue Mar 25 13:49:47 PDT 2008
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:12:02 -0700, ????? <@discussions.microsoft.com>
put finger to keyboard and composed:
>
>
>"philo" wrote:
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>> Although the unofficial service pack is made from official releases and
>> should not have caused a problem...
>> obviously it did.
>>
>> The "compression" problem you experienced was probably caused by using the
>> wrong boot disk
>> when you tried to reinstall Win98.
>>
>> There are several things you can do here.
>>
>> 1) go to www.bootdisk.com and get a boot disk from the *exact* version of
>> windows that you are using
>>
>> 2) delete the compression driver (drivespace.bin) from your boot disk
>> and/or from the root directory of your current system
>>
>> For example, if you try to boot your machine, hit F8 and select command
>> prompt
>>
>> then cd\ C:
>>
>> now simply try C:\ del *.bin
>
>I just checked, there are no .bin files on C:
How to Determine If a Hard Disk Is Compressed:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193051/en-us
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Once the command prompt appears, type the following line, and then
press ENTER:
dir d*.* /a /p
If you see any files named Dblspace.<nnn> or Drvspace.<nnn> (where
<nnn> is a number from 000 to 254), the drive is compressed. If you
view all the files on the drive, you do not see all of your files.
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What do you see when you type ...
dir c:\
dir c:\ /ah
dir c:\ /as
- Franc Zabkar
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