Article ID: 106425
Article Last Modified on 11/22/1999
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q106425
SYMPTOMS
After DoubleSpace compresses a drive on your system, it may report there is a disk error on more than one drive, and that there are zero bytes free on the newly created drive. For example, after DoubleSpace has finished compressing drive C, you may receive the following series of error messages (each is displayed after choosing OK):
CAUSE
DoubleSpace checks for the presence of Delete Sentry only when DBLSPACE.BIN is loaded in memory. Therefore, Delete Sentry causes the error noted above when you compress your first DoubleSpace drive.
This problem occurs because when DoubleSpace checks for free disk space, it does not take into account the hidden Delete Sentry directory.
When DoubleSpace reboots your computer, Delete Sentry is not loaded and there is insufficient space to compress your drive.
RESOLUTION
To work around this problem:
Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and remark out UNDELETE /SENTRY. For example:
REM UNDELETE /SENTRY
- Restart your computer.
- Run DoubleSpace Uncompress. For example, type dblspace /uncompress c: at the MS-DOS command prompt and then press ENTER.
- Recompress drive C. For example, type dblspace /compress c at the MS-DOS command prompt and then press ENTER.
- Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and restore the UNDELETE /SENTRY command.
- Restart your computer.
Additional query words: 6.20 compressed volume file (CVF) CIP unremark undelete sentry double space
Keywords: KB106425