>I have just tried to install a new HD. My attempts have failed,
>Windows refuses to acknoledge the new HD. It seems however that
>after much fiddling with FDisk and formating that I have now lost
>the contents of one of the (compressed) partitions of my original
>HD,

A compressed drive is actually a large file on the "real" physical
partition. This file, called a CVF or compressed volume file, has
the name DRVSPACE.00x (x=0,1,2 etc).

How many compressed drives did you have?
Are the CVFs still present.

If the CVF corresponding to your "drive" E: is still there, you can
mount it with a little editing of the DRVSPACE.INI.



Gerard R Thomas
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