Hello Demetri,

Monday, April 15, 2002, 2:08:57 AM, you wrote:

DK> I want to format a compressed drive. I ran Drive Space to uncompress
DK> drive. Uncompression finished with message drive H not fully
DK> uncompressed. Cannot run Windows anymore to rerun uncompression. On boot,
DK> get error message, "This program (Explorer) has performed an illegal
DK> operation and will be shut down". Tried booting into Safe Mode. Operation
DK> stops with same error message. Can boot into DOS, but Drive Space will
DK> not run in DOS. What do? Win95.

DK> Demetri Kolokotronis

The problem is not in the formatting the compressed drive (any
FDISK+Format will do), but in saving info from compressed drive!
You should be known that before decompression, the disk should had
free space for decompressing. Note that drvspace/doublespace are the
DOS utilities and couldn't work in windows mode(you only could start
these progs in win mode). Though the process started and there no way
to go back? Try to see the log files and clear out the root of the
problem. Once started, these progs will do theirs job to the END (even
if you turn off the PC during the process). The only reason they
couldn't finish the job is the disk space shortage for decompressing.
If you want to save some files from this hdd, you can use any system
floppy (win95/98)with drvspace/doublespace drivers on it.



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 Yakymakha

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