Restoring compressed FAT files to NTFS

[salewit]

Running Windows Xp Pro and I pulled two hard drives from an old 486 system which has data on it that I need. Both drives appear to have been compressed with DRVSPACE. I can not figure out how to decompress these files onto my NTFS system. Is it possible? The 486 system is long gone, so all I have are the two drives. The files on the drives are showing up as drvspace.000, drvspace.bin and dblspace.bin and dblspace.000.

Thanks,
Sam

 

[garebo]

Just a guess here til someone who knows comes by. I only opened my first case about 4 yrs ago, so i am not a dos head,lol.

My guess, though, would be for you to get a win98 boot floppy and boot to a:, then have another floppy with drvspace on it and uncompress to the same drive or maybe a different hard drive.
Does that sound reasonable?
You can google drivespace and the commands to run it.
Or maybe get it from a win 95 or 98 install cd, might be inside a cab file, though.









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[bcastner]

There are several issues:

. XP does not natively support driverspace or doublespace
. Win9x does not support NTFS

The only think I can imagine doing is to find another machine, install Windows 98SE, mount the volumes, and network the machine to the XP box.