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First post, by patrmich

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Hello,

On a floppy disk, I have 4 files coming from a single multi files backup made in 1997.

I copied and pasted such files on a single folder on my current computer running under Windows 10.

The 4 files have the following names :
CC12345A.001
CC12345A.002
CC12345A.003
CC12345A.004

On such recent computer, I cannot use Winrar as the trial period has expired.

I tried the following :
- selecting all the 4 files, making a right click and choose 7Zip > Extract here.

I got a single new file which has approximately the size of 4 floppy disks (5600 Ko).
The name of the file is CC12345A

But this file has no extension and I did not find any way or any application to open it.

Would you know how to retrieve the content of the 1997 backup ?

I thank you in advance for any suggestion.

Patrick

Reply 1 of 18, by H3nrik V!

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Would 7-zip read them?

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Reply 3 of 18, by patrmich

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When I try to open the CC12345A file with 7zip, I am getting the following error message :
Cannot Open File as Archive

Reply 4 of 18, by darry

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patrmich wrote on 2020-11-24, 09:16:

When I try to open the CC12345A file with 7zip, I am getting the following error message :
Cannot Open File as Archive

Are you sure that you are not missing a file in that backup set ? My memory may be off on this, but wouldn't the first file in a set normally be a .rar file ?

Reply 5 of 18, by patrmich

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When I make a right click on the first file (CC12345A.001), I can see Type of file is : Archive WinRAR (.001)

When I make a right click on the second file CC12345A.002 (and the two others subsequent files), I can see Type of file is : 002 (.002)

Reply 7 of 18, by astonsmith

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Open CC12345A.001 in a hex editor like HxD. What are the first few bytes? A genuine RAR archive would start with Rar, for example, and ZIP is PK.

Reply 8 of 18, by Errius

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Am I the only person in the world who paid for WinRAR?

My registration code from 20 years ago still works with the latest version.

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 9 of 18, by konc

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Errius wrote on 2020-11-24, 11:49:

Am I the only person in the world who paid for WinRAR?

My registration code from 20 years ago still works with the latest version.

Probably yes 😁 OK I replied to this to say that winrar trial never stops working, just starts throwing nag screens but I couldn't resist adding this:

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Reply 10 of 18, by GigAHerZ

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001, 002, 003, ... are sequential files, but the first file should be .rar. So it looks to me, you are missing the first file of the archive...

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Reply 12 of 18, by keropi

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Errius wrote on 2020-11-24, 13:37:

Did you download these files from Usenet?

If so, you should use a program like HJSplit to join them up into a single file. WinRAR is not needed.

https://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_ … ing_hjsplit.cfm

yes this , it could be split files

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Reply 13 of 18, by Cobra42898

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are we really on a retro forum where nobody remembers the msbackup system? that sure looks like files from msbackup from dos / win95.

put each file on a floppy disk, run msbackup in dos or backup in win95, and keep them in order.

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Reply 15 of 18, by Jorpho

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patrmich wrote on 2020-11-24, 08:17:
I tried the following : - selecting all the 4 files, making a right click and choose 7Zip > Extract here. […]
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I tried the following :
- selecting all the 4 files, making a right click and choose 7Zip > Extract here.

I got a single new file which has approximately the size of 4 floppy disks (5600 Ko).
The name of the file is CC12345A

But this file has no extension and I did not find any way or any application to open it.

It seems clear enough to me that 7-zip successfully extracted something. What files were you expecting to find in the backup?

Try uploading CC12345A at https://mark0.net/onlinetrid.html .

Reply 16 of 18, by aha2940

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I would try copying the files to a linux machine and running all of them through the "file" command, to get a guess of what they really are.

Reply 17 of 18, by Errius

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In the old days you would run echo d | debug CC12345A to see the first few bytes of the file. What's the modern equivalent of this?

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 18 of 18, by darry

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Errius wrote on 2020-11-27, 19:27:

In the old days you would run echo d | debug CC12345A to see the first few bytes of the file. What's the modern equivalent of this?

A hex editor . I like XVI . It works in Windows SE, Windows 10 and any thing in between, I imagine . It may work in Windows 95 or even Windows 3.1 with WIN32S .