Hi there! Don't you think that this mail would be more suited to a MS mailing list? Am Die, 2003-04-22 um 16.21 schrieb Ted Colthurst/GBC: > I switched from 2K to XP and did not know XP required signature approval on > some software so coincidently I had conflict. > In order to revert back to 2K I used my Zip 100 discs and the backup > procedure from windows XP. > I accumulated 8 discs full of all my data. > I then reinstalled (clean) the WIN2K. > When I went to restore the Zip discs I could not unpack them and could not > retrieve my data. 2 years worth. Uhuh. So why exactly can't you unpack them? You don't give us lots of information to work with. > MSN can't help saying it is a software problem and Zip can't help saying it > is an operating problem. > I am thinking it has to do with the file system format FAT (XP's) vs NTSF > (2k's). I can be wrong, but IIRC WindowsXP *can* be installed using NTFS (which is recommended if you don't use Linux on the same box) Just slap the disks into a Linux box and try to read them. You *do* run Linux, don't you? -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice
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