Greetings,
I need to recover files from a MSDOS 6 DoubleSpace volume. Any suggestions for tools that can do this? If necessary, I can build a system that I can install DoubleSpace on, or perhaps boot a drive image using LiveView, but it'd be a lot quicker if there was a tool available that would open the volume directly under some modern version of Windows. FTK, EnCase, and X-Ways can't do anything with it.
-David
You can use a VM with DOS allright, can't you?
Qemu would do allright.
Are you sure it is DOUBLEspace? (and not DRIVEspace?)
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Anyway, DOS 6.22 has BOTH, some related info
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Just in case
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There is a kernel driver for Linux
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but you will need some given kernel as it is not compatible with "all" of them.
jaclaz
Greetings,
I'm building a Windows 98 VM and it looks like that'll do the trick. My problem has been getting USB support to work in it so I may end up transferring files via CD of all things. But it'll get the job done.
The second to last link looks interesting. Always good to have source code around. I'll take a shot with that once I have this first effort finished.
Thanks very much for the help.
-David
If you add the USB-disk to a VM as physical disk instead of adding it as USB-device you can access it from within the Win98 without needing CDs or fiddling with USB-drivers
Specific instructions for Qemu and Virtualbox and VMware are here
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However, you don't need/want a Windows 98 install, you want a DOS 6.0 or 6.22 install, unless the files are Drivespace "3", though theoretically different drivespace versions are backwards compatible, I wouldn't trust this much, expecially if it's an actual Doublespace (DOS 6.0) image
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jaclaz
Greetings,
Ahhhh! I was struggling with the USB drivers and eventually punted and did everything with CDs. Thanks very much for that tip.
Windows 98 did open the DoubleSpace volume. The only catch is that it had to be on a FAT 16 partition.
I now have a Windows 95 and Windows 98 VM sitting around for the next time I need one. I'll see about building up a DOS 6.22 system as well.
Thank you all for your help.
-David
Happy to know went fine. D
jaclaz