{"id":7682,"date":"2021-11-24T14:52:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&p=7682"},"modified":"2021-11-24T14:56:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:56:22","slug":"old-backup-to-be-restored","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/dos\/old-backup-to-be-restored\/17568.html","title":{"rendered":"Old Backup To Be Restored"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brother gave an old backup he wanted restored so he could read the data. The label on the one backup file is” pcbackup.001″ etc. (etc. meaning the tag .001, .002) and the other tag is ” .bak”. I have an old backup copy of Central Point PC Tools from a Windows 3.1 backup that I installed on Windows 98 to be able to use the DOS that I think is one of the backup programs used. The problem is CP Backup so old that it doesn’t recognize the 3.5″ 1.44m floppy drive. It only lists the 5..25″ 1.2m and 320k floppies and fixed disk and removable disk. I chose the removable disk option and the disk spun up but I got an error message ” Bad Disk”. I tryed the “Backup Program” using the same options, with the same result using a formatted blank disk so I figured a formatting conflict. PC Tools has a format function which I tryed to use and got a message saying “The Wrong DOS” was being used and couldn’t do the format.
\nI tryed the fixed disk option for “Restore” but I think my command of “CP Backup” being a little more than rusty (I used to use MW Backup in Windows 3.1) it wouldn’t work either.
\nAnother cause might be the fact that the data came to me on a USB data stick that I had problems with installing on Windows 98 hard disk, so i used my Windows XP hard disk running NTFS file system and copying them to the Windows 98 running FAT32 and might have corrupted them that way but I don’ t think so.
\nSo my problem is: How do I get “PC Tools” to work under Windows 98 DOS or maybe a later version able to recognize the backup tags and use the 3.5″ 1.44m floppy drive or maybe a program allowing me to format the floppies to 1.2m format.
\nAlso if anybody has an idea of the backup programs that use the tags “.bak” and “pcbackup.001” (I’m not sure that PC Tools was used) I’d appreciate the info. It’ll be a waalk down memory lane because the date of the backups was done in June 1991.
\nThanks
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":8},"question-category":[60],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7682","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-dos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7682"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}