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I have floppy-disks compressed with drivespace under Win 98 SE and WIN95. Installed XP and can't read those disks. Any solution or suggestion to fix this? Except for re-installing WIN98 
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Drivespace Compability in XP?
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You'll have to work with the disks on a Win98 machine. Compression on WinXP is limited to NTFS-formatted drives. If FAT32-formatting is used, drivespace cannot be used [couldn't in Win98 either]. And did you have drivespace or drivespace 3 on the Win98 computer? Drivespace 3 came with the Plus! Pack installation.
I'd find someone with Win98 and a CD Burner and decompress them to the hard drive and then burn to a CD-R disk. Be a shame to undo your WinXP setup just for 1 purpose.
But you could install Win98 and re-install WinXP in a dual-boot setup.
But then there is the activation of WinXP, probably have to call Microsoft to get the code.
I'd find someone with Win98 and a CD Burner and decompress them to the hard drive and then burn to a CD-R disk. Be a shame to undo your WinXP setup just for 1 purpose.
But you could install Win98 and re-install WinXP in a dual-boot setup.
But then there is the activation of WinXP, probably have to call Microsoft to get the code.
You'll have to work with the disks on a Win98 machine. Compression on WinXP is limited to NTFS-formatted drives. If FAT32-formatting is used, drivespace cannot be used [couldn't in Win98 either]. And did you have drivespace or drivespace 3 on the Win98 computer? Drivespace 3 came with the Plus! Pack installation.
I'd find someone with Win98 and a CD Burner and decompress them to the hard drive and then burn to a CD-R disk. Be a shame to undo your WinXP setup just for 1 purpose.
But you could install Win98 and re-install WinXP in a dual-boot setup.
But then there is the activation of WinXP, probably have to call Microsoft to get the code.
I'd find someone with Win98 and a CD Burner and decompress them to the hard drive and then burn to a CD-R disk. Be a shame to undo your WinXP setup just for 1 purpose.
But you could install Win98 and re-install WinXP in a dual-boot setup.
But then there is the activation of WinXP, probably have to call Microsoft to get the code.
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I find it particularly odd (and frustrating) that there is absolutely NO way to uncompress or access data on disks that were compressed with a feature of an earlier Microsoft product with a later one (really should have been included as a utility in XP or a sub-feature of Compact IMO). I'm having the same issue with Zip disks I compressed with Drivespace 3 under Win98 and have NO way of accessing under WinXP. I understand that NTFS and FAT32 are very different ways to manage disks and data, but come on! At least give me SOME option other than reverting back to an older operating system to access data in a supposedly newer, faster, better one. If I, by some stroke of luck, find a better way to do this, I'll post it here.
While Windows XP does support its NTFS compression, it does not support DriveSpace 3. The only option is to uncompress the zip disk on a PC that supports DS3, such as a Windows 98 system.
DriveSpace 3 has not been supported under Windows since NT.
DriveSpace 3 has not been supported under Windows since NT.
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