On Wed Jan 30 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings- > I hate to bring this up, but you guys have been very helpful in the past > and someone on the list may know.... > On the desktop HD 1, I have winME. On the old desktop I had win98. > Before the HD went south, I backed up some stuff to floppies. When I > bought the new PC with winME, I found that I can't restore my win98 backup > floppies. What type of MS stuff is this.... I am sure there isn't really > anything important if I can't restore them, but I would like to check them > before I format the disks. Thanks for any info- > Cheers > Neil T.
If you backed up using xcopy/copy/zip, then there is NO reason why your floppies should not be able to be copied over onto any old hard drive you choose, unless your floppies where bad to begin with or have gone bad due to magnetic-field, heat/sunlight, or age. If you used the W98 BACKUP command and are now trying to use the WinME RESTORE command TO A DISK OTHER THAN THE ONE YOU BACKED UP FROM, you are probably out of luck...BACKUP/RESTORE have usually required that you are restoring to the same file-directory structure that you backed up from...since you say that that disk went south, then you can't....<g> ..which is why, most people backup using xcopy and/or Zip....these things always work, across the various flavors of wingedoze... There may be some incompatibility between the W98/WinME utilities, too, but I don't think so....WinME is just the hyped-up millineum upgrade for the W9x line of doze.... Maybe someone here has heard of a utility to read/restore those floppies to any-old hard drive...but...I have never heard of one.. ........gregy -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
