Resize Err Msg Occurs When Running DoubleSpace from Drive A (98842)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 6.0
- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 6.2
- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 6.22
This article was previously published under Q98842 SYMPTOMS
This information applies to both Microsoft DoubleSpace and Microsoft
DriveSpace. For MS-DOS 6.22, use DRVSPACE in place of DBLSPACE for commands
and filenames.
If you start your computer from a 1.2-megabyte (MB) 5.25-inch disk
created with SETUP /F, you receive the following error message if you
try to resize a compressed volume on your hard disk drive:
DoubleSpace cannot change the size of drive A because there is not
enough free space on your original startup drive, which is now drive
A. DoubleSpace will need at least 0.14 MB of free space on that drive.
Delete some files on that drive, and try this operation again.
NOTE: Although the a 1.2-MB boot disk most commonly causes this error
message, you receive this error message any time you try to resize the
compressed drive when the boot drive has insufficient disk space.
CAUSE
This problem occurs because the following files must be copied to
drive A:
DBLSPACE.INF
DBLSPACE.HLP
DEFRAG.EXE
Backup copy of AUTOEXEC.BAT
Backup copy of CONFIG.SYS
DoubleSpace requires these tools are on boot drive to ensure it can
continue if it must restart the computer or if the computer is
restarted inadvertently.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, make available approximately 151,040
kilobytes (K) of disk space (on the disk in drive A) for the backup
files. To do this, delete MSD.EXE and XCOPY.EXE from drive A. For
example, type the following commands at the MS-DOS command prompt and
then press ENTER after each line:
del a:\msd.exe
del a:\xcopy.exe
You should now be able to resize the compressed volume on your hard
disk drive.
NOTE: Deleting these two files frees up enough disk space as long as
your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files are not larger that 1024K each.
If they are larger, you may need to delete additional files from the
startup disk.
Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 11/23/1999 |
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Keywords: | KB98842 |
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