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Cannot Use DriveSpace to Compress a Substituted Drive

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Article ID:137529
Last Review:November 15, 2006
Revision:1.1
This article was previously published under Q137529

SYMPTOMS

If you try to use DriveSpace to compress a drive substituted with the SUBST command, you receive the following error message:
Windows cannot work with drive <X> because an application is currently using that drive.

MORE INFORMATION

You cannot use DriveSpace to compress a substituted drive.
APPLIES TO
•Microsoft Windows 95

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