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WinXP Home Workers Need DoubleSpace

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by kym yeoward

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Why is there no DriveSpace utility in Win XP Pro ?

Having recently replaced my Win98 home PC with one running XP Pro, I am digusted to find that DriveSpace was left out.

As one who regularly takes work home from our small business Win98 PC, onDrive-Spaced Zip-100 disks running Microsoft Briefcase, I urgently need this feature in Win XP.

Does Microsoft seriously expect me to fork-out hundreds of my own dollars upgrading to Zip-250 or Jazz disks ? Yes, I know XP has a remote log-on facility, but our small business isn't up to this yet.

Come on Microsoft, consider the thousands of Windows users who take work home, and get a DriveSpace version into Win XP F-A-S-T !

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by cnlson

xp is built on nt kernel which is not compatible with drivespace. your run of using drive space (and my briefcase for that matter) has ended. need to get a cdrw drive and junk the zip. you could still using my briefcase then with directcd to providedirect writing to cdrw media

by tjc

Microsoft caught up to you finally? You should never really trust any kind of advanced tools that come with Windows, since MS changes there mind every time you turn around, I learned this with msbackup in windows 3.1 to 95 to 98 had to undo all thatgood stuff to move around my files. I'm surprised that XP didn't warn you that upon install that drive space may not work, unless you didn't drivespace the hard drive and only have the zips that way. I suggest that you go back to your previous windows version and then get a third part comprssion tool like winzip and go from there.

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