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Win95 app's data backup to XP home

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by shiny_topadm 2 views

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I have a client with a Win95 PC that had multiple failures, apparantly modem and/or serial port related. They bought a new PC with WinXP home and new versions of the apps: Office & Money. While the old PC was working, they made data backups (from within "Money" and another non-MS application) to floppy disks (which show up as *.bak files). After the current version of the apps were installed on the new box, we tried to restore the old data and both restores failed with a "cyclic redundancy check" error. The hard drive in the old PC has already been formatted, attempting to fix its problems (before the decision to replace it was made). Is there anything else we should try before the "we've tried everything, but no success" discussion? Is it possible that all four floppies or the drive in the old PC were bad? I was unable to find anything that applied in the MS kb. I found some discussion of differences between MSBackup and NTBackup, but it didn't make any sense to me. Thanks for any insight you can offer...

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by maxwell edison

This error message could be generated by any of the following reasons:

During the transmission of the file it became corrupt or bad.

The file was sent inappropriately.

The device being opened from is bad or contains errors.

The file itself is bad or the program attempting to open the file is bad.

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Removable media issues:

If the file is attempting to be opened from a removable media such as a Zip disk / Floppy diskette it is possible data corruption is being encountered on the diskette itself or when coming from the removable media.

Try an alternate diskette or media.

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File is bad or program attempting to open the file is bad:

Finally, if the file is being opened from the hard disk drive or other media it is likely that the file is corrupted or the program opening the file is corrupted.

Download the file again.

Reinstall the program being used to open the file
Attempt to open with a different program
If the file is onthe hard disk drive run scandisk / defrag.

Assume the file is bad and cannot be recovered.

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The preceding is from the Computer Hope site at this link:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000430.htm

(REMOVE SPACES from the pasted URL.)

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That doesn't sound too promising. You might try to load the old versions of Office and Money on the new machine, and attempt to restore the data again. (You may or may not beable to load the old versions to co-exist with the new versions.) Then uppgrade to the new versions of the applications.

Best of luck,

Maxwell

by dklippert

Unfortunately
(don't you hate messages that start out that way?),
MSBackup and NTBackup are not compatible.
The suggestion is:

"RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, restore the data from the tape or file by using Msbackup on a computer that is running Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me.

STATUS
This behavior is by design."

(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

by shiny_topadm

Thanks, MS continues its long tradition of bugs, excuse me, features, that are just waiting to bite unsuspecting users...

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