Well, my issues are on two Win98SE computers. Maybe you're not doing what I'm doing: one problem is that it doesn't extract to the right folder across drives, and another is a problem with the command-line version: on certain files, if using LZMA2 in maximum compression, it locks up, and I have to close the window. 🙁 It doesn't lock up when using other archive formats or compression techniques, though.

Harry Potter wrote on 2023-08-16, 14:05:

Bad news: it stopped working again. 🙁 I don't quite remember what I did to get it to work so can't repeat it.

add dos=high

I believe I have "dos=high,umbs,auto" there, but the computer is at my mother's house, and I left there yesterday.

I'm at my mother's house now, but my computer stopped working. 🙁 First, I was compressing a Zip disk using DriveSpace, and it got stuck at 10% too long. I eventually checked the drive's LEDs, and it wasn't busy. I tried the mouse but didn't see the cursor. I tried to reboot, but, every time, I get a blank screen while starting Windows. It appears for a few seconds normally but now just hangs there. When I press Caps Lock, the LED on the keyboard turns on and off. Also, Ctrl-Alt-Del restarts the system. What can cause this? How can I fix this?

Did you try something like abacus reparo with a figure 8 wand flourish?

Just kidding, but Win9x will often sort itself out if you boot it into safe mode, then reboot normally.

I'll try that now. Thank you.

It didn't work. 🙁

If none of the hard drives are using drivespace, I'd boot with a floppy then rename drvspace.ini to drvtrash.ini in case it left that screwed up. (You might need to use attrib -r -a -s -h to see it and be able to modify it)

Well...it only has one hard drive, and it's way too large to compress. I will try to boot to the command prompt and do the assignment now.

I just tried that, but attrib gave me a File Not Found error. 🙁

I tried disabling dblspace in msdos.sys, and now, Windows shuts down while booting with the standard shut-down message.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong location for the file. It's in C:\, right?

Should be, unless it puts it in the path where the commands are. Sorry, brain flaking on differences between DOS 6.22 and Win9x drivespace implementations.

I will try it in \windows\command now. 😀

I tried that and \windows and still get a File Not Found error. 🙁

I don't think it's DriveSpace, as I just disabled it in MSDOS.SYS and recently dblspace. 🙁 I've just started checking out the config files and will get back to you.

I extracted and attached the config files. I had to rename some of the files, as they at first didn't register on my Win11/64 laptop. 🙁

I just discovered a Windows protection error. 🙁

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