Windows 95 disk compression

[Dave's World]

A customer of mine recently ran disk compression (drive space) on a Compaq deskpro 4000 with Windows 95 rev.B
The harddrive is working allright so far. Is there anyway to uncompress the drive ?

[Norm]

Not sure about WIn95, but in DriveSpace 3 that comes with Win98 there is an option to uncompress, right under Compress in the Drive menu.

Open DriveSpace and have a look for the uncompress option.
Win95 DriveSpace could be different than Win98 version, but I would guess that there would be an option to uncompress.

Make sure the freespace on the drive is enough to handle the added decompressed files before you try it.

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DW.

Compression really isn't worth it these days with storage being so cheap. I realize that you are trying to get rid of it. I made the mistake of trying to format a drive that had a mounted volume on it. I deleted everything but the mounted volume, so I could no longer boot from it and you can't format a mounted drive in DOS. It was useless to me. I finally set it up as slave in a Win98 machine and was able to decompress the mountd volume.

I know that doesn't tell you how to do it in Windows 95. There has to be a way, if not you could always resort to plugging it into a 98 machine.

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[Dave's World]

Finally got back to the PC today. Drivespace does in fact have the
uncompress option. Ran it and everything is fine. Thanx.