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Answer» I have a hard drive with three volumes. Two are compressed volumes and are easily viewed in the 98SE OS, but not in a dos environment. I am attempting to edit both of the compressed volumes using Nortons Diskedit, but cant get Norton to see the compressed volumes. Norton sees the volumes when I run it from the 98SE OS, but not when I run it in dos. The problem is that Norton Defaults to a Read Only status in a Windows OS. I am unable to edit the volumes that WAY. If I can get dos to see the volumes (uncompressed) then I can get Diskedit to modify the same volumes. Are these NTFS compressed volumes? DOS does not support NTFS. neither does win98SE. Maybe they are Double-spaced or DriveSpaced?They are Drvspaced or perhaps Dblspace for sure. They are all FAT volumes. drvspace will decompress the volumes when I boot to a 98SE OS, so that is not an issue. The problem is when I attempt to return to a pure dos mode, the two virtual volumes are gone. It is like this: Windows 98SE D: E: F: DOS D: Quote from: hminus on December 29, 2009, 07:37:57 AM They are Drvspaced or perhaps Dblspace for sure. Is this when you exit Windows 98 to the command PROMPT? To access a Drivespace compressed "volume" in MS-DOS, you need to create, and then boot from a DOS 7 boot floppy with drvspace support. It is. Here is the breakdown.. I work the HD from a forensic boot disk , before any DCA takes place. I will look for data in the file slack and anything in the unallocated space, ect... After I am satisfied with that search, I will then shut the system down, remove the boot disk and do the following: 1. configure the HD that I wish to examine as the slave drive 2. configure my windows 98se HD as the master 3. boot to win98se and let DCA do its thing. (it is at this point I start having problems... I have some forensic tools loaded on the 98se machine in the root directory. These tools are dos tools. I can run them in 98se in a dos box and they see the logical drives just fine, but when i exit to c:.... they are gone..) Now one might say just use these tools in the windows dos box and be done with it... I would except programs like nortons diskedit will not allow you to get out or read only mode while operating in windows...) ======oh yea, my boot disk is version 7... I believe that is the version that comes with 98SE. Thanks for any help. I ask again, are you loading the drivespace compression driver when you start with the boot disk? Yes, Drvspace, IO.SYS are there.So you are a law enforcement officer?Yes I have been for nearly 15 years now.. I am currently working on my CCE and am having a bit of trouble getting some of my DOS tools to work. When you exit to C: and they don't show up, your doing that in DosBox on the 98SE volume right? That's the problem. The volumes show just fine in the DosBox,.. the dos tools I am using need to be in a pure dos environment to work properly. I need the volumes to show when I exit windows to DOS. Nortons diskedit will not let you write to a disk if you are running it in a DosBox. I think you will have to do a boot from a floppy, bypassing the hard drive W98 boot altogether. I thought you were doing this? |
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