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Re: How do I recover data off old Zip drives?

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From: Gerard Bok
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:39
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On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:25:43 GMT, "." <.@.com> wrote:

>"." <.@.com> wrote in message 
>news:Pw6ym.45283$ze1.11053@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
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>> "KipMc4" <kipmc4@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
>> news:decb603d-72ca-45e3-aedf-a167673c409d@2g2000prl.googlegroups.com...
>>> I'm trying to restore some data I saved on 4 Zip drives. It's from an
>>> old PC I'm going to retire that is getting very unreliable.
>>>
>>> I thought I ran the Backup correctly and saved the data on the Zip
>>> drives but maybe not.

If it was the old MS-Dos Backup that you used, you should keep in
mind that Restore was very picky with regard to Dos-versions.
So, is it possible that the backup was written under an older dos
version ?

>>> When i run the Restore, the software keeps asking me to insert the
>>> last disk from the backup.

Norton Ghost also does this .... :-)

-- 
met vriendelijke groet,
Gerard Bok
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From: bok118@zonnet.nl (Gerard Bok)
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Subject: Re: How do I recover data off old Zip drives?
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