khearn@uts.amdahl.com (Bug Hunter) (06/05/90)
I've hit a little snag on my AT. I backed it up recently so i could repartition it. I made the mistake of using DOS's backup. When i was restoring i hit a problem. Everything was fine for the first 13 floppies, but on the 14th, it went bad. It was going fine, printing each filename as it restored it, when it went into a loop, just printing the same filename over and over (very quickly). There was no disk activity going on. I tried doing the restore again, and got the same symptom. The file the it screwed the pooch on was the last one in the control file (i looked). It is also the first one on disk 15 of the backup. Does anyone have any solutions for restoring the rest of my hard drive (about half is left to be restored). I've tried running restore, telling it to restore only those files that don't exist, but it doesn't restore any of them. Does anyone know what format Microsoft uses for the backup file and the control file? I know the control file has 34 byte records, and I've figured out what some of the feilds are, but it'd be nice if i could be sure of what is in all of them. At least i could modify the files so it will skip the one file ir screws up on, and restore the *rest* of my hard drive. I can restore the one file that's giving it problems from a master floppy for that package. Any ideas (other than never trusting DOS to do things safely)? Keith "Half a hard drive" Hearn -- Keith Hearn \ khearn@amdahl.com \ Say it ain't so, Krusty Amdahl Corporation \ - Bart Simpson (408)737-5691(work) (408)984-6937(home)\