Drivespace 3 & Windows NT 4,0
Bastiaan van Hamersveld
Hai everybody,
is it possible to access DriveSpace 3 drives (Win 95/MS Plus) from within
Windows NT 4.0
Greetings, Jan!
Al Rudderham
>is it possible to access DriveSpace 3 drives (Win 95/MS Plus) from within
>Windows NT 4.0
Nope it's not. If you want to share drives they must be uncompressed
FAT.
Dhr. Jan Lam Jr VII
> >is it possible to access DriveSpace 3 drives (Win 95/MS Plus) from within
> >Windows NT 4.0
>
> Nope it's not. If you want to share drives they must be uncompressed
> FAT.
>
I don't need to share them, I only want to access them from within NT,
but it seems it ignores the DRVSPACE drivers.
I can install NT on an uncompressed disk, but I have a strange
Geographical Information System, which writes files from a lot of mb's
which compress very easily, so I really would like to keep using
DriveSpace, or else I would have to buy 4 Gig of disk space.
Jan (jan...@worldonline.nl)
Al Rudderham
Oops. By "share" I meant be able to access from either NT or Win95 in a
dual boot config. NT cannot access compresses FAT volumes. If you only
want to access the data from NT, then you can use NTFS, which does
provide file compression. But NTFS volumes are not accessible from Win95
(assuming dual boot).
Jan Lam Jr VII
> Oops. By "share" I meant be able to access from either NT or Win95 in a
> dual boot config.
Ok, now I understand what you mean, thanx anyway, too bad it's not possible.
Greetings, Jan!
Rick Tengdin
Dhr. Jan Lam Jr VII wrote:
>
> > >is it possible to access DriveSpace 3 drives (Win 95/MS Plus) from within
> > >Windows NT 4.0
> >
> > Nope it's not. If you want to share drives they must be uncompressed
> > FAT.
> >
> I don't need to share them, I only want to access them from within NT,
> but it seems it ignores the DRVSPACE drivers.
> I can install NT on an uncompressed disk, but I have a strange
> Geographical Information System, which writes files from a lot of mb's
> which compress very easily, so I really would like to keep using
> DriveSpace, or else I would have to buy 4 Gig of disk space.
>
No. NT cannot read any DOS/FAT compression scheme.
NT 3.51 includes file-level compression for NTFS disks that works really
well from the NT side. You didn't say if you are dual-booting the same
PC or not. If you can run just NT then you can convert your drives to
NTFS and compress the hell out of those data files.
--
Richard Tengdin VLSystems, Inc.
MCSE (TCP/IP, Exchange) Irvine, CA
NT/Alpha specialist
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Jan Lam
Hai,
> NT 3.51 includes file-level compression for NTFS disks that works really
well.
Does this also work al well under NT 4.0? Because then it would be useful
to upgrade to NT 4.0.
Do you need special drivers for this, or is this standard?
Greetings. Jan