Re: Restoring a Win98 backup file after upgrading to XP

From: R. McCarty (PcEngWork-NoSpam__at_mindspring.com)
Date: 11/07/04 

Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:02:26 GMT

No "Painless" way, but here is an option. Microsoft offers a 45
day free trial of it's Virtual PC software. It allows you to run a
complete OS in a protected/virtual environment.
 If you have original Windows 9x/ME install media you can get
the trial version of VPC-2004 and create a Virtual machine.
If your computer has a Network Interface card you can create
a membership with your existing XP Workgroup.
 Once you have your 9X/ME install running you can recover the
data from the backup and then network the data to your XP
instance.
 Not at all easy - but it can be done. Virtual PC's work just like
any other with a BIOS setup, Virtual drives,etc. VPC-2004 does
not support USB devices but that shouldn't hinder you from
recovering your data using VPC.
The trial download version is found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=360cafd6-5098-4c64-9ca7-a30f225859f6&DisplayLang=en

There is also a MS Newsgroup for Virtual PC 2004
The learning curve to use the software is probably a couple of
hours.

"BV" <BV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:41CFCAF0-3256-4113-A72E-3BCA5C3CD9AC@microsoft.com...
>I recently upgraded to XP and created backup files using the MSBackup
>utility
> prior to doing so. The files were created with the .qic extension. The
> XP
> utility does not recognise this file type. Is there any way to restore
> these
> files on this PC?

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