Michael Heavener wrote:
>
> Since you mentioned your drivespace drive is H:, it sounds like you don't
> have the line
>         Lastdrive=H
> in your config.sys

Thanks Micheal- but no cigar- Still won;t automount, and the drive
letter specified no longer appears in the list.
>
> At 12:37 PM 2/20/98 +1030, you wrote:
> >Does anyone know why drivespace won't automatically mount a compressed
> >drive?
> >The drive, omce I mount it with the Drivespace application works fine,
> >it's just not there when I re-boot.
> >
> >Two clues- whatever letter I assign is *not available* in the drive list
> >once I re-boot. That is, if I assign the compressed drive to be H:, it
> >works absolutely OK for the duration of the session. But, when I next
> >start-up, I can assign it to any letter, but not H, which does not
> >appear in the list of drives. Again, this does not affect the use of the
> >compressed drive, once I use DriveSpace to mount it.
> >
> >Clue 2- if I try to change the size of the drive, Drivespace wants to
> >re-boot, and the gives a message  I should run Scandisk on C: and
> >c:\drvspac.001. I have run scandisk many times- no errors found. I have
> >also deleted all compressed drives, run scandisk, ( no errors) and
> >created a new compressed drive. The symptoms don't change.I have also
> >run a complete de-frag, both on the compressed and normal drives, and on
> >the drive after deleteing all compressed drives. No change in symptoms.
> >
> >I am using an NEC Versa 4000c notebook computer-Pentium 75, 24Mb RAM,
> >800Mb disk drive.
> >
> >Any help much appreciated .
> >
> >
> >Bill Cooper
> >
> >

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