Microsoft KB Archive/189524

= Error Message: DriveSpace Cannot Work with Drive Because... =

Article ID: 189524

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 95

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This article was previously published under Q189524



SYMPTOMS
When you try to compress a removable-media drive, you may receive the following error message:

DriveSpace cannot work with because the drive was formatted using a non-standard sector length. (standard sector length is 512bytes)



CAUSE
This issue can occur because DriveSpace and DriveSpace 3 do not support compressing drives with a non-standard sector size. For example, a 640- megabyte (MB) magneto-optical disk can use a non-standard sector size of 2 kilobytes (KB).



STATUS
This behavior is by design.

Additional query words: 98

Keywords: kberrmsg kbhardware kbprb KB189524

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