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Towing Scam | 07-31-2009 - Recovering Old Archive Files A couple months back my my boss Eric handed me some 3.5" diskettes and said that there were files from Lila on them. Lila was the founder of the company I work for. Lila has been passed away for sometime now, so recovering the files has a certain irreplaceable value to it. So I open up each disk and only see one file on each disk. They all take up the majority of the disk. The files are labeled CC90921A.001, CC90921A.002 and CC90921A.003. Good gravey! This didn't start out very easy. So I open up one of the files in a text edit to see if the header of the file can expalin anything. Tada! I found the following: NORTON Ver 1E After just a little search engine help I discover the following webpage explaining MSBACKUP and MWBACKUP. This is great, but neither program runs on XP these days. A custom DOS installation on a beater machine seems to be the best choice without causing problems with my main desktop machine. I was able to create a DOS 6.22 boot disk from bootdisk.com. On another diskette I copied the MSBACK62.EXE file from this MS-DOS resource page. It's self extraction file the unpacks a bunch of other files onto the c: drive. From there I was able to run msbackup.exe and start the ancient ms-dos program. The most important part to remember is that some catalog file is needed to recover. Make sure to use the last disk of the backup to rebuild the catalog file. There was talk about some spacing problems between DOS 6.2 and 6.22, but I was lucky enough not to experience those problems. (0) Comments |