problem w/drivespace, emm386, drive won't stay mounted

[Bleeding Edge]

Last time I compress a drive was back in the Win 3.11 days.
I won't be much help here, however, a Swap File that hasn't enough space to expand will generate such an error on a compressed drive.
Can you boot into Win98's safemode by pressing and holding down the CTRL key?
Or is that out of the question?
You can then create a startup disk for a compressed drive or move the swap file off or onto (whatever applies) the compressed drive to a drive with more space.
Although this link http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q130/0/18.asp doesn't directly address your specific issue, you may find it insightful.

[This message has been edited by Bleeding Edge (edited 03-16-99).]

[Linda]

Running Windows98, compressing with Drivespace3,apparently the compression has not completed. Win 98 won't load. I run "scandisk /mount c:" and it mounts ok. Then I "scandisk /all" and it starts out scanning ok, but says there is not enough memory to scan the larger drvspace.000. I need to know what I should put on my win98 startup disk that it will mount the compressed drive, and load all the necessary memory commands with the right config.sys and autoexec.bat settings. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Linda

[Bleeding Edge]

Found somthing more specific at: http://support.microsoft.com/support/windows/tshoot/drvspace98/?PR=W95&T1=7d&FR=0&A=T&T=T&S=F&