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Well Imagine my surprise. Quarterback.
« 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.

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Re: Well Imagine my surprise. Quarterback.
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2011, 03:35:34 AM »
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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.
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Re: Well Imagine my surprise. Quarterback.
« Reply #2 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....
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Re: Well Imagine my surprise. Quarterback.
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2011, 04:46:15 AM »
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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.
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Re: Well Imagine my surprise. Quarterback.
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2011, 06:02:04 AM »
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Wow, Franko replicates faster than Agent Smith.


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