Drivespace error

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TomM - 22 Apr 2004 16:45 GMT

Hello,

I've been trying to utilize Drivespace on Win98SE and each
time I try to compress the drive, I get an error message
saying that there are errors on the hard drive that must
be fixed first and that I should run Scandisk. I run
Scandisk and it does not find any errors. I then return
to Drivespace and again I get the message about fixing
errors.

Is this a known problem with Drivespace? I can't imagine
it not being at this point in time. Anyway, is there a
fix or a workaround?

Thanks for your help.

Tom

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Jeff Richards - 23 Apr 2004 00:43 GMT

When you run scandisk on the hard drive make sure that the option to report
MS-DOS mode name length errors is checked. These filenames are not
considered an error in Windows, but they are seen as an error in DOS-mode
scandisk.

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 25 Apr 2004 04:57 GMT

Richard,

I checked the options for Scandisk, they were set the way
they should have been. When I re-ran DriveSpace, I got
the same error that I was before. Do you have any other
suggestions?

Thanks again.

Tom

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Jeff Richards - 27 Apr 2004 04:07 GMT

Have you run Scandisk from a boot to DOS?

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