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

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From: ArarghMail909NOSPAM
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:18
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On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:39:01 GMT, bok118@zonnet.nl (Gerard Bok) wrote:

>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...
>>>
>>> "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 .... :-)

So does pkzip
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