Please reply to the list. This is information that might be valuable
to others as well,----though we always hope not! My sympathy to you,
Jeff.
Kay Appleby
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Legacy Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 4:48 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Backup/Restore error
> About a month ago I lost my c: drive. I was unable to recover my
Legacy
> database of 65,000 names from the drive using Norton Utilities.
>
> However, I knew I had a backup on floppy that was only 2 weeks old.
So I
> tried to reload that. Unfortunately, the first floppy has a bad
cluster, so
> Legacy and WinZip were unable to read beyond it.
>
> Because this is a multi-volume zip file, everything becomes more
difficult.
> I can't fix it with Windows' ScanDisk, because the diskette is full
already,
> and there is no place to write a replacement file. I can't copy it
to a
> hard drive, because of the bad cluster.
>
> I would have expected that, if the diskette was bad in the first
place, that
> it would be taken care of (and a warning message issued) by Legacy
when the
> data was backed up. But that doesn't much matter at this point.
Does
> anyone have a suggested solution? Does anyone know how to recover
from this
> type of error? Is there shareware software that will copy the file
as is
> back to a hard drive, so I can run ScanDisk on it? Optimally, I
would like
> to end up with one contiguous zip file on my hard drive containing
all the
> volumes from floppy. Then perhaps I can recover using Norton.
>
> Any ideas appreciated. Please reply directly, rather than to the
list.
>
>
>
