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Greenlizard0

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..I think, I'm not sure. :(

Essentially my old dear has her old stuff on a hard drive that ran on a Windows 98 machine. This used DriveSpace to compress the drive, and I think everything is still lumped together under one giant file.

I have attempted to use Recuva or try and wangle into it, with limited success.

There is a READTHIS text file on the drive that states (along the lines) that the compression was used in Windows 95/98 and that I need to mount the hard drives but by using the aformentioned program. Not sure what is going on.
 
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arh i see the problem...

if you click the link it wont show you to solution, however if you google '9.2 Drivespace support for XP - Third party utility' and click on the top link you'll be abe to scroll down...

from the botom of the page..




Simple -- well, sort of -- providing you can dedicate the parallel port to the device.

(1) Install Windows 989SE to a Virtual PC with Microsoft's Virtual PC

(2) Assign the parallel port to that Virtual PC (from the Settings in Virtual PC)

(3) Be sure the Windows 98 "virtual machine" is on the same network as the "real" machine (it works just as if it was a totally independent machine).

(4) Share the Jazz drive with full read/write privileges.

(5) Map a drive on the "real" PC to the shared Jazz drive

Done!! You can add Virtual PC to the startup menu and the '98 machine will always be "on" (unless the user explicitly turns it off).

I've done this sucessfully with a parallel port ZIP drive -- and although it didn't use DriveSpace, it shouldn't matter, since W98 will be doing the compression/decompression as part of the file read/write cycle.


Having said all of that, I'd agree it seems like a better idea to just move all the data to a more modern media (DVD's etc.).




:)
 
I've never been able to view the solution on EE without subscribing or simply scrolling to the bottom of the page.

Surely, being able to scroll to the bottom of the page to view the solution would remove the websites purpose.
 
Lucero said:
I've never been able to view the solution on EE without subscribing or simply scrolling to the bottom of the page.

Surely, being able to scroll to the bottom of the page to view the solution would remove the websites purpose.
Click to expand...

they depend on people not knowig that you can scoll down.:rolleyes:

try it out. use the details in my post above. :)
 
Cheers for the help fellas, but it's ok. I booted the old machine the drive was from, and apart from throwing a few wobbly errors on startup I got Win98 running fine.
Blast from a past ahoy..
 
pleased you got it working.

On the experst exchange site, It seesm that if you are directed from google (or any other search engine) you are able to scroll down to see the answers.

If however, you are given a link to the page (like the one above) the site knows this and stops the answers from being displayed.

I've noticed this a few times and just copy the title of the post into google and then find it from there.

It has saved my ass loads fo times :)
 
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