Error Converting Empty Stacker-Compressed Floppy Disk
PSS ID Number: Q107257
Article last modified on 11-17-1993
PSS database name: O_MSDOS

6.00 6.20

MS-DOS


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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft MS-DOS operating system versions 6.0 and 6.2
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SYMPTOMS
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If you try to convert an empty 1.2-megabyte or 1.44-megabyte Stacker
compressed floppy disk to a DoubleSpace-compressed floppy disk, you
receive an error message stating that the Stacker volume is corrupted
and cannot be converted.

RESOLUTION
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To work around this problem, format the disk and then compress it
using DoubleSpace.

Additional reference words: 6.20 stacvol

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.