DriveSpace 3 Cannot Compress Drive with 22 Local Drives
Article ID: 135813
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Plus! 95 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q135813
SYMPTOMS
When you try to use DriveSpace 3 to compress a drive on a computer with 22
local drives, you receive the following error message:
Drive letters C through Z are in use. You need a free drive letter
to mount a compressed drive.
To free a drive letter, disconnect a network drive or unmount a
compressed drive you aren't using now.
RESOLUTION
To compress a drive on a computer with the configuration stated above, you
must add the line "firstdrive=Y" to the Drvspace.ini file. The Drvspace.ini
file should be located in the root directory of the compressed drive, and
should have its Hidden, Read-Only, and System attributes set. To remove
these attributes (so you can edit the file), type the following line at an
MS-DOS prompt:
attrib -r -h -s drvspace.ini
Add the line
firstdrive=Y to the beginning of
the file, save and close the file, and then restart Windows 95.
STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
Keywords: KB135813