You receive the following error message when you are running Windows 95
Setup to upgrade an existing Windows 95 installation:
Setup checked the hard disk(s) on your computer and found that
there may be problems. You need to check your disk(s) before
continuing Setup.
To repair these problems, quit Setup and then run ScanDisk from
Windows. Then run Setup again.
When you run ScanDisk in Windows 95, no errors are reported.
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This error message can occur if there is a damaged DoubleSpace or
DriveSpace compressed volume file (CVF) that is not mounted. The ScanDisk
test run by Windows 95 Setup checks unmounted CVFs.
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To work around this behavior, use either of the following methods:
| • | Run ScanDisk on the unmounted CVF by typing the following line at
a command prompt
scandisk <drive>:\<dblspace.nnn>
where <drive> is the letter of the hard disk containing the CVF and
<dblspace.nnn> is the name of the CVF. Note that the CVF may be
named DRVSPACE.<nnn>.
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| • | Rename the CVF file so that Setup will not check it and then run
Setup again. To rename the CVF file, type the following line at
a command prompt
ren <drive>:\<dblspace.nnn> dscvf.<nnn>
where <drive> is the letter of the hard disk containing the CVF,
<dblspace.nnn> is the name of the CVF, and <nnn> is the extension
of the CVF. Note that the CVF may be named DRVSPACE.<nnn>.
NOTE: The unmounted CVF may have its Hidden, System, or Read-Only
attributes set. Before you rename the file you may have to remove
these attributes. To do so, type the following line at a command
prompt
attrib -s -h -r <drive>:\<dblspace.nnn>
where <drive> is the letter of the hard disk containing the CVF and
<dblspace.nnn> is the name of the CVF. Note that the CVF may be
named DRVSPACE.<nnn>.
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When you run Windows 95 Setup from MS-DOS or Windows 3.x, Setup does not
check unmounted CVFs. Setup checks unmounted CVFs only when you run Setup
from an existing Windows 95 installation.
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