DriveSpace Utility Creates DoubleSpace CVFs in Windows 95 (123751)
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This article was previously published under Q123751 SUMMARY
Windows 95 can mount, read from, and write to both MS-DOS 6.0 and 6.2
DoubleSpace (MRCI1) and MS-DOS 6.22 DriveSpace (MRCI2) drives in
protected mode and real mode. The DriveSpace utility in Windows 95 can
mount, unmount, resize, format, delete, change estimated compression
ratio, uncompress, show properties of, and so on, for both DoubleSpace
and DriveSpace drives.
When the DriveSpace utility creates a new drive (either by compressing an
existing drive, or by creating a new, empty compressed drive), it creates
it in DoubleSpace format (MRCI1). The reason for this is that during beta
testing, Microsoft determined DoubleSpace is more commonly used on systems
not running Windows 95. This does not, in any way, suggest you should use
DoubleSpace in place of DriveSpace. The code for each has been tuned in
Windows 95 to make them substantially faster than the compression in MS-DOS
6.x.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 2/7/2002 |
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| Keywords: | kbinfo KB123751 |
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