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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: sparkeyjames on April 15, 2011, 03:33:18 AM

Title: Well Imagine my surprise. Quarterback.
Post by: sparkeyjames on April 15, 2011, 03:33:18 AM

I just recently resurrected my good old A2000. Out of the collection of 200 hundred or so disks I found that only a few are unreadable or have errors on them. Not bad for 17 years.

HOWEVER I have at least 5 sets of backups made with Quarterback backup software. Of the disks that were made in each and every backup set Quarterback can read NONE of them. Yet if I put the disk in an icon shows up on the workbench entitled QBXX where XX is the sequence number in the set. Since Quarterback used it's own proprietary format I am royally screwed.
The really strange part is is that I used Quarterback without any problems years ago to restore a hard drive when I had one die on me.

I wonder if maybe the floppy has a very small misalignment problem.

Jim

Title: Re: Well Imagine my surprise. Quarterback.
Post by: Iggy on April 15, 2011, 03:35:34 AM

Quote from: sparkeyjames;631706

I just recently resurrected my good old A2000. Out of the collection of 200 hundred or so disks I found that only a few are unreadable or have errors on them. Not bad for 17 years.

HOWEVER I have at least 5 sets of backups made with Quarterback backup software. Of the disks that were made in each and every backup set Quarterback can read NONE of them. Yet if I put the disk in an icon shows up on the workbench entitled QBXX where XX is the sequence number in the set. Since Quarterback used it's own proprietary format I am royally screwed.
The really strange part is is that I used Quarterback without any problems years ago to restore a hard drive when I had one die on me.

I wonder if maybe the floppy has a very small misalignment problem.

Jim

Ugly! You've just reminded me of how much I hate floppies.

Title: Re: Well Imagine my surprise. Quarterback.
Post by: kd7ota on April 15, 2011, 03:43:58 AM

Crazy because I was actually thinking about that stupid software. I got a stack of backups that were made from quarterback from the original owner, but never have I tried to recover from them since I have no idea how it works or if its passworded....

Title: Re: Well Imagine my surprise. Quarterback.
Post by: Iggy on April 15, 2011, 04:46:15 AM

Quote from: kd7ota;631710

Crazy because I was actually thinking about that stupid software. I got a stack of backups that were made from quarterback from the original owner, but never have I tried to recover from them since I have no idea how it works or if its passworded....

Wow, Franko replicates faster than Agent Smith.

Title: Re: Well Imagine my surprise. Quarterback.
Post by: kd7ota on April 15, 2011, 06:02:04 AM

Quote from: Iggy;631721

Wow, Franko replicates faster than Agent Smith.

Curse.......CUUUURRRSEEEEE!!!!! :P