RESTORING A BACKUP FROM WINDOWS 98 TO XP

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ROBIN

Help me please, does Windows XP not recognize a back up
done on Windows 98, or am I doing something wrong?? I
backed up all my documents (word and excel) and am trying
to restore it to my "new" Windows XP and it won't
recognize the data??? What is wrong??

Thank you in advance for your help.

Robin
 
Greetings --

If you've used Win9x's native backup utility to create *.qic
files, I'm afraid you'll need to restore those files on a Win98
machine prior to transfer to the WinXP machine. As they've always
been since the days of Win95 and WinNT, the two back up file formats
are completely incompatible. Another possible solution would be to
purchase a 3rd party backup utility that can read and convert the *qic
file format; I've heard that Veritas makes such a product.

WinNT_2K Backup Does Not Recognize Win9x Backup Files
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q155979

Remember, WinXP is descended from WinNT and Win2K, and it
completely unrelated to Win9x/Me.


Bruce Chambers

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