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Article #3200fix DoubleSpace config.sys
From: Bill Harvey
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 03:08
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 03:08
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My sister has almost her entire c: hard drive (all but a few kbytes) formatted as a DoubleSpace volume. I managed to screw up her config.sys (I added a device= statement which (I guess) is causing it to try to load a driver which is not really a driver) so that now she can't boot from it. And I know almost nothing about DoubleSpace. When we boot from a floppy, we're able to view the directory on the c: drive, but the only things that show up are the few hidden files needed by DoubleSpace. That means (I guess) that the config.sys is saved within the DS volume. But I need to be able to edit it to remove this invalid device= statement, and I don't know how to get access to it. We ran SCANDISK against both the c: drive and the DoubleSpace drive on c: and SCANDISK reported that both volumes were ok. After scanning the DS drive, it said that the volume wasn't mounted and that we should mount it with the command: DBLSPACE/MOUNT C: When we issue that command, we get the message: -=-=-=-=- There are no more drive letters reserved for DoubleSpace to use. To add more drive letters, choose the Options command from the Tools menu. -=-=-=-=- I tried issuing the command: dblspace/mount c: /new=h: but got the same message. The config.sys on the floppy that we're booting from looks like: LASTDRIVE=M DEVICEHIGH /L:1,39488 =A:\DOS\DBLSPACE.SYS /MOVE (we're booting from a:) We tried issuing the DBLSPACE command with no parameters, too. I don't have the exact message text, but it complained that it couldn't run when booting from a floppy, and refused to start up. Does anyone have any suggestions they can offer on how I can get access to the config.sys on this DS volume? What's the Tools menu? How can I reserve more drive letters? Is that the right approach, or should I try something else? We're really getting pretty desperate. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much. Bill
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1102f1,4b66460de5021558,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1102f1,public X-Google-Thread: 1106e2,4b66460de5021558,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1106e2,public X-Google-Thread: 1076d4,4b66460de5021558,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1076d4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-04-06 20:08:45 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!news.cs.kuleuven.ac.be!ub4b!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!WUVMD.Wustl.Edu!HARVEY From: HARVEY@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu (Bill Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.windows.misc,bit.listserv.win3-l Subject: fix DoubleSpace config.sys Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 21:08:45 CST Organization: Computing&Communications; Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; USA Lines: 47 Message-ID: <94096.210846HARVEY@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: wuvmd.wustl.edu