Microsoft KB Archive/96130

= How DBLSPACE.BIN Determines If It Should Stay in Memory =

Article ID: 96130

Article Last Modified on 11/19/1999

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q96130



This information applies to both Microsoft DoubleSpace and Microsoft DriveSpace. For MS-DOS 6.22, use DRVSPACE in place of DBLSPACE for commands and filenames.



SUMMARY
If you have DBLSPACE.BIN in the root directory of your startup drive (usually C) but you do not have a compressed volume file (CVF), DBLSPACE.BIN still loads in memory.

After DBLSPACE.BIN loads in memory, it searches for the DBLSPACE.INI file.
 * If DBLSPACE.INI is found, DBLSPACE.BIN remains in memory and continues the boot process by loading IO.SYS in memory. (It doesn't matter whether the DBLSPACE.INI file is valid.)
 * If the DBLSPACE.INI file is not found, DBLSPACE.BIN does not remain loaded in memory.

NOTE: The DBLSPACE.SYS command in the CONFIG.SYS file does not affect this process.



MORE INFORMATION
If you attempt to load DBLSPACE.SYS in the CONFIG.SYS file when DBLSPACE.BIN is not loaded into memory, the following error message is displayed:

You cannot access any DoubleSpace compressed drives because DBLSPACE.BIN is not loaded. (DBLSPACE.BIN is the portion of MS-DOS that provides access to DoubleSpace compressed drives.)

To correct this problem, remove the line in the CONFIG.SYS that loads DBLSPACE.SYS or assure that DBLSPACE.BIN remains in memory on startup.

Additional query words: 6.00 errmsg err msg dblspace start up 6.20

Keywords: KB96130

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