On Thu Jan 31 04:20:48 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings- > I am not sure if it was Sam, but I can use regular disks from Win 98 > to winME....my problem was with w98 I used their back up > program that gives the disk an extention that is not recognized in ME. > So now I have a box full of "backup" disks that I have no way of > restoring. > I don't think there is anything on them that is too important, but I still > would like to see what is on them. > Cheers > Neil
The problem with using the BACKUP and RESTORE utilities included with all (?) versions of DOS is that these utilities are not compatible between different DOS versions. For example, I cannot use the BACKUP utility to back up my stuff on a mackine running DOS 3.30 and then use the RESTORE utility to copy the same stuff onto a machine running DOS 5.00. If both machines were running the same DOS version then the utilities would work. I have encountered this kind of problem in my experience. I don't know if the various DOS manuals included with the distributions make any mention of the problem. The same kind of incompatibilities between different DOS versions with regard to the BACKUP and RESTORE utilities probably applies also to the same utilities included in different Windows versions. If you had mentioned in your first post that you had tried to back up and restore your stuff by using the BACKUP and RESTORE utilities I would have recognized the most likely cause of your problem immediately: incompatibility of the utilities between different Windows versions. I had thought most experienced DOS users were well aware of the problem, and they would have supposed that the same kind problem might apply to the Windows utilities also. You can probably still restore your stuff, but you will likely find that you can restore it only to a machine running WIN 98. Good luck, Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
