Win 98 & floppies compressed with DRIVESPACE

[franagain]

Hi. My new computer with Windows 98 will not read the floppies I made with my old computer with WIN 95. The problem is most floppies were compressed with DRIVESPACE, and although the option was checked to mount the drive automatically, it doesn't seem to have worked.
Windows 98 will not read the floppy but give a READ FILE saying that the floppy must first be mounted with DRIVESPACE & Windows 95.
My old computer doesn't have a working floppy drive anymore. Both computers are on a home network (Lynksys). The floppy drive of the new computer is shared and I thought I could access it from the old computer through the network, but it gives the same Read file.

Is there a way to
- put a copy of DRIVESPACE on win 98 (although it says it needs win 95)?
- go around the problem using another program on win 98?

Or will I have to get a new floppy drive just to read those floppies?
Any help?
Thanks.
Fran.

[david eaton]

Hi, Franagain.
I assume you have win98se. If so, that includes Drivespace 3, and installing that will allow you to read compressed floppiesafter thay are mounted. Not too certain how floppies are mounted, as I find disk space cheaper and easier to use! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif You should be able to install it from Control panel/add/remove programs/windows setup/system tools.
Hope that helps
David

[franagain]

David, thanks. No, I don't Win 98 SE. This is a computer that was donated to me. But, I just tried the DriveSpace on this machine and it worked just fine. That's good to know.