Cannot Upgrade a Drive to DriveSpace 3

 Last reviewed: September 5, 1995
Article ID: Q135969
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows 95
  • Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

You may receive the following error message when you try to upgrade to DriveSpace 3: 

   Not enough free space on H (Host_For_C) to complete the task
You are then prompted to resize drive C to increase free space on drive H. If you click Yes, you see an error message stating that Windows could not resize the drive, and you are told to increase the free space on drive H to at least 4 MB. You continue to receive this error message, no matter how much free space there is on drive H.

CAUSE

This problem occurs when all of the following conditions exist:

  • Drive C is compressed with DriveSpace.
  • The compressed volume file for drive C is smaller than 67 MB.
  • The host drive for drive C has less than 2.2 MB of free space if no Failsafe.drv folder exists, or has less than 128K of free space if the Failsafe.drv folder does exist.

RESOLUTION

Remove files on the host drive so that there is a least 2.2 MB of free space if no Failsafe.drv folder exists, or at least 128K of free space if the Failsafe.drv folder does exist.

KBCategory: kbtool kberrmsg
KBSubcategory: plusfest win95 winplus
Additional reference words: 95

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Last reviewed: September 5, 1995
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