Article: Q123751
Product(s): Microsoft Windows 95.x Retail Product
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Last Modified: 07-FEB-2002
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 95
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SUMMARY
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Windows 95 can mount, read from, and write to both MS-DOS 6.0 and 6.2
DoubleSpace (MRCI1) and MS-DOS 6.22 DriveSpace (MRCI2) drives in protected mode
and real mode. The DriveSpace utility in Windows 95 can mount, unmount, resize,
format, delete, change estimated compression ratio, uncompress, show properties
of, and so on, for both DoubleSpace and DriveSpace drives.
When the DriveSpace utility creates a new drive (either by compressing an
existing drive, or by creating a new, empty compressed drive), it creates it in
DoubleSpace format (MRCI1). The reason for this is that during beta testing,
Microsoft determined DoubleSpace is more commonly used on systems not running
Windows 95. This does not, in any way, suggest you should use DoubleSpace in
place of DriveSpace. The code for each has been tuned in Windows 95 to make them
substantially faster than the compression in MS-DOS 6.x.
Additional query words: dxxspace bin vxd
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Technology : kbWin95search kbZNotKeyword3
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Issue type : kbinfo
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