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Opening DRVSPACE-Files in Dosbox?

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First post, by DrNibbert

Posted on 2012-05-06, 19:54

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Hey everybody!

i recently came across some old floppy-disks i compressed in Win98SE using "DriveSpace". When I try to read them, i only see a DRVSPACE.000-File, wich i can not open.
Searching the Internet I found out, that the only way to open these files would be to get a system that still runs win98 to open the files.

But isn't there a simpler way? My Idea was, to open the DRVSPACE.Bin (from the Win98-Boot-Disk) in Dosbox and extract the files.

Does that sound possible? I'm a bit scared to screw something up when dealing with these old disk-utility-programms..... 😖

Has anyone tried this already? Any tipps?

I use Dosbox on a MacBook, OSX 10.5.8.

Thanks!! 😀

Reply 1 of 2, by DosFreak

Posted on 2012-05-06, 20:43

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Reply 2 of 2, by Jorpho

Posted on 2012-05-07, 14:55

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You can indeed boot off a Windows 98 floppy image in DOSBox, if I'm not mistaken. To make images of your floppies, I suggest using RaWriteWin. You can read more about the necessary IMGMOUNT and BOOT commands in the DOSBox readme.

I found this page that suggests you should still be able to mount floppies if you make the appropriate changes.

Otherwise, according to the Wikipedia article, there's a Linux utility you could try, but indeed, you are probably much better off running Windows 98 in a virtual machine like DosFreak suggested.

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