| Other names | DoubleSpace (DBLSPACE) |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Vertisoft, Microsoft |
| Initial release | 1993 |
| Operating system | MS-DOS, Windows 9x |
| Type | Command |
DriveSpace (initially known as DoubleSpace) is a disk compression utility supplied with MS-DOS starting from version 6.0 in 1993 and ending in 2000 with the release of Windows Me. The purpose of DriveSpace is to increase the amount of data the user could store on disks by transparently compressing and decompressing data on-the-fly. It is primarily intended for use with hard drives, but use for floppy disks is also supported. This feature was removed in Windows XP and later.