Question : Problem: I need to view and copy files from an old hard drive that is a stacked volume from a PC-DOS6.x machine. My current machines are W2k & XP

I'm looking for a simple way to view and copy files from a Stacked (compressed) volume taken from an old PC-DOS machine that died when its old expired battery gave it an acid bath.  I'd like to avoid having to build up a DOS machine, and I need to copy to an NTFS disk.  I'm OK with the command window but don't have VirtualPC.

Answer : Problem: I need to view and copy files from an old hard drive that is a stacked volume from a PC-DOS6.x machine. My current machines are W2k & XP

Nope he's using Stacker.

Best bet is to build up another dos machine.  If you need a dos with stacker try

http://www.drdos.net/download.htm

For information on drdos Stacker

http://www.drdos.com/dosdoc/usergeng/12ugch12.htm

You could then probably slave your old drive to the dos box and extract the data.