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Q107525: Drive Letters Swapped After Converting Stacker Drives

Article: Q107525
Product(s): Microsoft Disk Operating System
Version(s): MS-DOS:6.2
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 25-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system version 6.2 
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SYMPTOMS
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After converting several Stacker-compressed drives to DoubleSpace- compressed
drives, your drive letter assignments may be incorrect. For example, the drive
letters for a removable media drive and its host drive may be reversed.

CAUSE
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RESOLUTION
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To work around this problem, use the DBLSPACE /HOST command to set the correct
drive letters for your drives.

For more information on using the DBLSPACE /HOST command, type "help dblspace
/host" (without the quotation marks) at the MS-DOS command prompt and then press
ENTER.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in MS-DOS Conversion Disk for Users
of Stacker. We are researching this problem and will post new information here
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.


Additional query words: 6.20 Bernoulli

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbMSDOSSearch kbMSDOS620
Version           : MS-DOS:6.2

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