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DoubleSpace Drives Not Viewable under Windows NT

Article ID: 90554

Article Last Modified on 8/8/2001



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1



This article was previously published under Q90554


SUMMARY

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.

SYMPTOMS

When using MS-DOS DoubleSpace with Windows NT configured for Dual Boot, you cannot see your compressed files or run your MS-DOS-based programs when running MS-DOS Prompt under Windows NT.

CAUSE

To accomplish disk compression, DoubleSpace uses a device driver (loaded at system startup) to intercept disk reads and writes from the command line and MS-DOS-based applications. When you run MS-DOS Prompt under Windows NT, the DoubleSpace device driver is not loaded.


Additional query words: 6.0 6.20 dblspace double space

Keywords: KB90554