Microsoft KB Archive/134560

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Newly Formatted Drive Does Not Support Long Filenames

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Q134560

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows 95

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SYMPTOMS
When you use the Fdisk program to configure a new, secondary disk drive, restart the computer, and then use the Format program to format the new disk drive, when you copy files to the new drive, you receive the following message

  Select File Name

The destination does not support long file names. Please enter a name for this file.

Original path: C:\LongFileName.Extention

To folder:

New name:      longfile.ext where is the drive letter of the newly formatted drive.

CAUSE
When Windows 95 starts, it creates a cache of information about the capabilities of each drive, including whether it supports long filenames. When the Format program finishes, the information in the cache is not updated; therefore, Windows 95 reads the previously cached information that indicates that the new drive does not support long filenames.

RESOLUTION
To copy files with long filenames to the newly formatted drive, do one of the following:


 * Restart the computer.

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 * Double-click My computer, and then on the View menu, click Refresh.

MORE INFORMATION
In addition to the message above, other symptoms you may see are as follows:

 When you create a new folder, it only accepts an MS-DOS 8.3 filename. When you drag a file with a long filename to the new drive, the long filename is changed to an MS-DOS 8.3 filename.  When you attempt to copy files across a network from one mapped drive to another (where both networked computers are running Windows 95), you receive the following error message:

The destination does not support long file names. Please enter a name for this file.



To resolve these symptoms, use a resolution listed above.

Keywords : diskmem win95

Issue type :

Technology : kbWin95search kbWin95