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ARTICLE-ID:Q96496
TITLE :Err Msg: SYS Is Unable to Operate on Target Drive
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system version 6.0
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Summary:
If you try to run SYS.COM on a drive that has been compressed with the
DoubleSpace, you may receive the following error message:
SYS is unable to operate on target drive
To work around this problem, you must manually unmount the compressed
drive before you run the SYS command to make drive C a bootable drive.
More Information:
This error usually occurs when an attempt is made to run SYS.COM on a
hard disk drive that has been compressed with DoubleSpace and has
failed because of corrupted MS-DOS files. DoubleSpace performs "drive
swapping," giving the physical drive a drive letter other than C
(typically the fifth letter after the system's last block device) and
designating the compressed volume file as drive C. Even if you boot
from a floppy disk, it is possible that DoubleSpace will mount the
compressed drive and perform the drive swap. Because we cannot run
SYS.COM on a DBLSPACE drive, SYS.COM generates the error message.
Additional reference words: 6.00