Re: NTBACKUP on XP Fails to Restore .BKF File from CD

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:52:47 +0100

Gary Grathen wrote:

>I burned the backup directly to CD and didn't see any problems (I selected "verify" under "advanced options"). I don't have access to the backup log files unfortunately, as they were lost when after the disk crash.

If you burned direct to CD from NTBackup, then you *must* have been
using a 'packet writing' auxiliary like Direct CD or InCD. NTBackup
will not otherwise use a CD as output medium. So you will need to have
that same package installed before trying to read the disks (Explorer
can read *some* packet written disks, but by no means all) 

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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)