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Article ID: 189524 - Last Review: January 23, 2007 - Revision: 1.2

Error Message: DriveSpace Cannot Work with Drive Because...

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SYMPTOMS

When you try to compress a removable-media drive, you may receive the following error message:
DriveSpace cannot work with <drive letter> because the drive was formatted using a non-standard sector length. (standard sector length is 512bytes)
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CAUSE

This issue can occur because DriveSpace and DriveSpace 3 do not support compressing drives with a non-standard sector size. For example, a 640- megabyte (MB) magneto-optical disk can use a non-standard sector size of 2 kilobytes (KB).
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STATUS

This behavior is by design.
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Windows 95
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Keywords: 
kberrmsg kbhardware kbprb KB189524
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