My old PC ran Windows 98, new one (about 18 months old) is XP. At the time I copied "everything" I would need to the new PC... except for some obscure files that were backed up to CD using W98 Backup... Guess what - it is not possible to restore those to Windows XP. I need to get hold of some files.

Checking out various sites it seems that there is no utility in Windows XP to restore from these old backups (with QIC extension). I found a package called Backup MyPC which is claimed to be able to do it, but the trial versions certainly doesn't (it says I have to have made the backups with the same software to be able to restore...)

So - has anyone nearish to me got a PC still running W98 that I could come and use to restore these files? I have a bunch of backups on CDs that need to go hrough to find the files to restore.

Thanks in hope

Failing anyone near you with a W98 pc an option you could look at is downloading the demo version of VMWare and installing a copy of windows 98 into that virtual machine and then mounting your cd inside the virtual machine and restoring your files that way then copying them from the virtual machine.

if you want anymore info on how to do it let me know.

[Edited on 28/2/06 by Gav]

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Originally posted by Gav
Failing anyone near you with a W98 pc an option you could look at is downloading the demo version of VMWare and installing a copy of windows 98 into that virtual machine and then mounting your cd inside the virtual machine and restoring your files that way then copying them from the virtual machine.

if you want anymore info on how to do it let me know.

[Edited on 28/2/06 by Gav]

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hi
have a couple of old pc's with win98
installed, can you send/ email/whatever and i'll have a go for you

oops, sounds like you have a loty of files there, i'll restore all the cd's and write them to dvd's for you if you post them down

[Edited on 28/2/06 by Scotty]

Looks like scotty might be able to help you, and yes you would be able to install w98 onto the virtual machine that VMWare creates and after its all done you can remove VMWare, just like any other program.

The old trap --- not the first time MS have done it --- MS were made aware of the problem at the time of Xps launch they claim " This behavior is by design."


Would offer the loan of a PC but much too far away.

For anyone wanting a really good genuinely free backup program that will even back up to and restore from your webspace by FTP and SSL and uses Zip file formats try Cobian Backup

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

I'm a bit far away from you too, but I have a cople of old PCs that run Win98. I used to keep a PC with all the versions of Windows on it so I could boot between different versions if someone I had sold a Pc to had problems with it. If I can help, let me know.

i assume thats a "no thanks" then ?

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Originally posted by Scotty
i assume thats a "no thanks" then ?

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no probs mate
i run a computer shop so always have win98 computers around

Found a PC with W98, so I will hopefully be able to restore my files.

Thanks again, Scotty

yw, but the offer still stands if needed

It worked OK, but thanks again