My Laptop’s Windows 98 is experiencing a fatal error after boot-up. I have it hooked-up to my home network, and can access all the information on the hard drive via the intranet (after it’s error has occured…) Here’s my dilema. I compressed thedrive to give me more disk space, which was great, until it crashed… now I can’t format it because it’s been compressed…
I’ve saved all the information I needed off of the hardrive using the intranet connection. So I figure I can just formatthe drive and re-load Window’s 98. HERE’S THE PROBLEM: I CAN’T FORMAT A DRIVE THAT HAS BEEN COMPRESSED, IT SAYS I NEED TO RUN DRVSPACE. That’s fine, but I can’t access windows because it’s experiencing a fatal error. I’m stuck in a catch-22. HELP!
This is what I’ve tried. Using a start-up disk to boot me up (running the start-up with Cd-Rom support) I figured I could format the hardrive using from the a: prompt FORMAT C: /S (where c: is my hardrive)then just install windows… but it’s giving me the error I mentioned before: “cannot format a compressed drive please run drvspace.” (Or something to that effect)
I’m not sure, but I think the problem has something to do with my having to unmount the compressed drive first? Or is this not neccessary? I just can’t get to windows in order to run DrvSpace from my laptop…. Remember I have an intranet connection to the hardrive, is this a possible tool? I tried mapping the laptop’s hardrive as a network drive, but that didn’t dome any good… I REALLY NEED MY LAPTOP FIXED, what can I do?