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Q114364: Novell Compressed Drives Inaccessible Under MS-DOS 6.21

Article: Q114364
Product(s): Microsoft Disk Operating System
Version(s): MS-DOS:6.21
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 20-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system version 6.21 
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SYMPTOMS
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If you upgrade a Novell DOS 7 system that has compressed drives other than C to
MS-DOS 6.21, the drives are inaccessible after the upgrade because Stacker is no
longer loaded.


CAUSE
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MS-DOS 6.21 Setup was not tested with Novell DOS 7 and is not designed to be
installed over Novell DOS 7.

WORKAROUND
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You may be able to work around this problem by renaming the STACKER.BIN file to
DBLSPACE.BIN.

Additional query words: 7.0 7.00 novell

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbMSDOSSearch kbMSDOS621
Version           : MS-DOS:6.21

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