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

ID: Q189524

The information in this article applies to:

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)


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).


STATUS

This behavior is by design.

Additional query words: 98 


Keywords          : kberrmsg kbhw kbtool win95 win98 
Version           : WINDOWS:95
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: February 12, 1999