Microsoft KB Archive/107257

Error Converting Empty Stacker-Compressed Floppy Disk PSS ID Number: Q107257 Article last modified on 11-17-1993 PSS database name: O_MSDOS

6.00 6.20

MS-DOS

= SYMPTOMS =

If you try to convert an empty 1.2-megabyte or 1.44-megabyte Stacker compressed floppy disk to a DoubleSpace-compressed floppy disk, you receive an error message stating that the Stacker volume is corrupted and cannot be converted.

= RESOLUTION =

To work around this problem, format the disk and then compress it using DoubleSpace.

Additional reference words: 6.20 stacvol

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