Since you mentioned your drivespace drive is H:, it sounds like you don't
have the line
        Lastdrive=H
in your config.sys
or use any other letter except Z (the extra drive-mappings use a tiny bit
of memory but are then available when you need them. But, there are still
some older programs that won't run if they can't take the drive beyond the
last drive and won't got past Z).

You can use any case -- upper or lower.

I've always used lastdrive=y, except once I took the line out for a
tech-support call and forgot to put it back in -- lost three drivespace
volumes, a removable drive, and all network capability. Took me half a day
to spot the problem.

Michael Heavener
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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
>
>