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by johnson-clayton 1 view

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A client backup a stand alone PC using MS Backup/Restore that is packaged with Win98. 2 of the 17 disks are not readable but restore stills see's the files but will not restore the requested files which are not located on the 2 bad disks. I need to 21 JPEG files off these disks any suggestions.

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by rcom

Try good old diskcopy in DOS. There isn't as much file reading as when you do a file copy. Reboot to command prompt only. Do the following command.

C:\>diskcopy A: A:

Remove the other files off the floppies before you run scandisk that way ther'll be room for scandisk to move the files from the unreadable sections to other locations. Also if you remove the other files and run defrag it will move the files to a new location and if the file are not damaged they'll be readable again.

by johnson-clayton

The files aren't on the bad disks, even without the bad disks the restore still will not perform the task. The restore states completed but no files were restored.

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