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Q107136: Can’t Access Compressed Drives; DBLSPACE.BIN Is Not Loaded

Article: Q107136
Product(s): Microsoft Disk Operating System
Version(s): MS-DOS:6.2,6.22
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 18-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system versions 6.2, 6.22 
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This information applies to both Microsoft DoubleSpace and Microsoft
DriveSpace. For MS-DOS 6.22, use DRVSPACE in place of DBLSPACE for commands
and filenames.

SYMPTOMS
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You may receive the following error message when you start your computer:

  You cannot access any DoubleSpace-compressed drives because DBLSPACE.BIN is
  not loaded.

NOTE: DBLSPACE.BIN is the portion of MS-DOS that provides access to
DoubleSpace-compressed drives.

CAUSE
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This problem occurs when you have the following line in your CONFIG.SYS file and
DBLSPACE.BIN is not in the root directory:

  device=c:\dos\dblspace.sys /move

RESOLUTION
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If you have DoubleSpace-compressed drives, you should copy DBLSPACE.BIN to the
root directory of your boot drive. You can either copy it from the directory
containing your MS-DOS files or expand it from your setup disks to C:\.

If you are not using DoubleSpace, remove all references to DBLSPACE.SYS from your
CONFIG.SYS file.

MORE INFORMATION
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This situation can occur when:

- You remove MS-DOS 6.2 and Uninstall restores your pre-MS-DOS 6.2 CONFIG.SYS
  file, which includes the DEVICE command for DBLSPACE.SYS.

- You format the host drive (to remove DoubleSpace) and then restore your
  backed up files (including your CONFIG.SYS file with the DBLSPACE.SYS
  reference).

- You have one or more DoubleSpace-compressed drives, drive C is not
  compressed, and you delete DBLSPACE.BIN from the root directory of C.

Additional query words: 6.20

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbMSDOSSearch kbMSDOS622 kbMSDOS620
Version           : MS-DOS:6.2,6.22

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