How to reverse DoubleSpace
Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani
want to reverse it. The manual doesn't tell you how. Is is
possible? and How? Please e-mail me (hraf...@fmg.bt.co.uk). Thanks.
-hossein
Nirva tOOmish
What you have to do is go to your E drive or I drive or whatever your
original hard drive is (the one with the big dblspace file), and delete all the
files, this will surly get rid of doublespace.
PS. By the way, there is no way to do it without losing all your data with
MS-DOS, although if you install Novell DOS 7.0, you can convert the
doublespace drive into a stacker drive and undo the stacker drive with
Novell DOS 7.0's stacker stuff. If you have no access to Novell DOS 7.0
then you can copy some stuff to your uncompressed doublespace drive and
shrink the size of the doublespace drive. Then copy more stuff and repeat
until you have nothing left to copy, then delete your small dblspace file.
Reboot after you have deleted all the extra doublespace files from that
uncompressed dirve. This should get rid of it. The first choice I have
personally tried, but the second choice is just a theory. Try it, I think
it should work. Mail be back if you are confused.
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--Nirva tOOmish(ni...@draco.unm.edu)
Mark Dolecki
Three methods:
1. Backup your harddrive, reformat it, and restore all of your data.
2. Copy everything to a different hard drive, then copy back after
reformatting.
3. The more complicated method is to find the uncompressed drive that
corresponds to the drive that is doublespaced. Copy all of your files
over to that logical drive, then use deltree to delete the dbl*.* files
in the root of the disk. If you don't have enough room to copy all of
you files over to the "shadow" drive, copy a directory at a time.
After you have copied a directory, resize the dblspace drive. You then
have more space on the uncompressed portion. Keep doing this until
you get everything moved. Note that this only works if the total space
of files on the dblspaced drive is less than the total space of the
hard drive.
None of these methods is totally painless, but they all work.
Mark Dolecki CIS: 70004,3235
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Chad English
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What version of DOS is it. I have DOS 6.2 and apparently all you have to
do is either type dblspace /uncompress c: or type dblspace to put you in
the program and then seletc "uncompress" from the "tools" menu (I
think). Of course I've been trying that and it says "Dblspace detects an
undelete utility in memory. It must be unloaded before uncompressing."
and then it won't let me do it. I checked my status and neither the
Delete Tracker or Delete Sentry protections are loaded, but I tried to
unload and purge anyway to which of course it said they weren't loaded.
Perhaps some of the other ways are better, but it seems to me this is the
way you are *supposed* to uncompress.