Microsoft KB Archive/150579

= DriveSpace Is Not Supported with FAT32 Drives =

Article ID: 150579

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 95

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This article was previously published under Q150579



SYMPTOMS
When you try to compress a drive with DriveSpace or DriveSpace 3, you may receive the following error message:

Drive C cannot be compressed because it is a FAT32 drive.

ID Number: DRVSPACE738

Also, when you view Drivespace 3 Properties the size of a hard disk is listed as 2 gigabytes (GB) when the drive is larger than 2 GB. This may happen on FAT32 drives.



CAUSE
DriveSpace was designed to work with the FAT12 and FAT16 file systems and cannot be used with drives using the FAT32 file system.



STATUS
This feature is under review and will be considered for inclusion in a future release.

Additional query words: osr2 dblspace doublespace DRVSPACE378 DRVSPACE 378

Keywords: kberrmsg kbprb KB150579

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