Microsoft KB Archive/152610

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Compression Agent Restarts Continuously on PCMCIA Drives

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Q152610

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 95 OEM Service Release, version 2.0

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SYMPTOMS
When you use Compression Agent with a removable PCMCIA hard disk, Compression Agent may restart continuously at 10 percent finished.

CAUSE
This behavior can occur if the drive is marked as removable in Device Manager.

RESOLUTION
To work around this behavior, follow these steps:


 * 1) In Control Panel, double-click the System icon.
 * 2) Click the Device Manager tab, and then double-click Disk Drives.
 * 3) Double-click the appropriate drive to display its properties.
 * 4) Click the Settings tab, and then click the Removable check box to clear it.
 * 5) Click OK, and then click OK.
 * 6) When you are prompted to restart your computer, do so.

STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION
This problem is specific to PCMCIA drives and does not affect other removable drives such as floppy disk drives.

Additional query words: osr2

Keywords : win95

Issue type :

Technology : kbWin95search kbGamesSearch kbPlusSearch kbOPKSearch kbWin95 kbPlus95