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Computer storage help

Post by know1 » Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:59 am

Ok I'm stumped here. I'm trying to recover data off some dat72 4mm backup tapes with no luck. The drive is working fine but I can't seem to find a program that will restore from it.

Does anyone have any experience or ideas? I started to try Symantec backup exec among others but it won't install on windows 7, only server based OS. I've run out of ideas. :x
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Re: Computer storage help

Post by evanisnor » Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:20 am

Have you tried installing a server OS onto a virtual machine?

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Re: Computer storage help

Post by mckay75 » Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:43 am

What backup program created the backup on the tape?

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Re: Computer storage help

Post by know1 » Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:53 am

evanisnor wrote:Have you tried installing a server OS onto a virtual machine?
no, but I'll give it a try. Thanks!
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Re: Computer storage help

Post by know1 » Tue Dec 02, 2014 12:06 pm

mckay75 wrote:What backup program created the backup on the tape?
I'm not sure unfortunately as they are from an past network. Possibly just Windows Backup through NT but that's entirely a guess
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