Question Restoring Castlewood Orb backups from 2002

[UncJim]

Is it possible to restore Castlewood Orb backups? I copied the backups to 2 CD's and have 1 file each on them. Each file is titled "Non-Allocatable List" and is 0kb. I no longer have the Orb drive or discs and am on Win 10 now.

 

[rgd1101]

doesn't sound like you have backup

 

[stonecarver]

Okay long shot here can you open disk and right click and drag mouse to darken what you have on that CD/DVD and once darkened right click and right click and click send to -----Compressed (zipped) folder

It will complain you can't save it on the CD/DVD would you like to save it to your desktop. Click yes.

If there is actually anything there you have a better chance of cracking it open off the CD/DVD.

If you do try this post what the properties say the size of the zip file that should now be on your desktop.

It does kind of sound like maybe you used a CD formatted for music but put data on it and if that's the case that's why your getting the "Non-Allocatable List" but lets see.

 

[UncJim]

Okay long shot here can you open disk and right click and drag mouse to darken what you have on that CD/DVD and once darkened right click and right click and click send to -----Compressed (zipped) folder

It will complain you can't save it on the CD/DVD would you like to save it to your desktop. Click yes.

If there is actually anything there you have a better chance of cracking it open off the CD/DVD.

If you do try this post what the properties say the size of the zip file that should now be on your desktop.

It does kind of sound like maybe you used a CD formatted for music but put data on it and if that's the case that's why your getting the "Non-Allocatable List" but lets see.

Thanks, I was actually able to save zipped folder to the CD but it only has 138 bytes

 

[DSzymborski]

Thanks, I was actually able to save zipped folder to the CD but it only has 138 bytes

That should be a sign that you don't have the zipped folder saved.

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks, I was actually able to save zipped folder to the CD but it only has 138 bytes

Thats not anything with actual data.

 

[UncJim]

That's what I figured. And it didn't matter if I extracted from the CD or desktop. both showed 0 bytes.

Thanks for trying!
Jim