NTI DriveBackup! cannot restore

I have a backup of my 250gig hard disk on 13 CD's. My problems started
when my motherboard failed. I swapped the motherboard with the
eForce-a and AMD 3000+ processor. The maxtor drive website says if
changing the BIOS, the drive overlay needs to be backed out prior to
going to the upgraded BIOS. Since the motherboard failed, I could not
do that. When I installed the drive the new system said the drive was
unreadable. After multiple attempts from the Maxtor site and the
Maxtor software to recover the drive I figured it was no use, after
all, "I have a backup of the drive" I thought.
Problem number 2. I try to restore and the 2nd cd disk is bad. I try
to clone this disk and restore with the clone and it will not restore.
I contact NTI and they suggest I get the Backup Now 4 trial version and
restore from the boot CD. Multiple times I try and cannot get past the
2nd disk. I copy all 13 disks over to an image file on the hard disk
just so I have some form of archive of these image disks.
I contact NTI and they say there is nothing else they can do.

I have NERO and tried to restore using these disks but it wants a
different file type than NTI uses. NTI image backup writes to .NPF
file. NERO wants .NBI.
Is there anyway to do a selective restore from these image disks with
one of the disks bad?

Is there anything I can do with these cd's except use them for
coasters???????

I have battled with this for 2 months and cannot get anything restored.

I hope somebody can help.

MrBill

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Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
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MrBill wrote:

I have a backup of my 250gig hard disk on 13 CD's. My problems started
when my motherboard failed. I swapped the motherboard with the
eForce-a and AMD 3000+ processor. The maxtor drive website says if
changing the BIOS, the drive overlay needs to be backed out prior to
going to the upgraded BIOS. Since the motherboard failed, I could not
do that. When I installed the drive the new system said the drive was
unreadable. After multiple attempts from the Maxtor site and the
Maxtor software to recover the drive I figured it was no use, after
all, "I have a backup of the drive" I thought.

Try hardware groups like:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

Problem number 2. I try to restore and the 2nd cd disk is bad. I try
to clone this disk and restore with the clone and it will not restore.
I contact NTI and they suggest I get the Backup Now 4 trial version and
restore from the boot CD. Multiple times I try and cannot get past the
2nd disk. I copy all 13 disks over to an image file on the hard disk
just so I have some form of archive of these image disks.
I contact NTI and they say there is nothing else they can do.

I have NERO and tried to restore using these disks but it wants a
different file type than NTI uses. NTI image backup writes to .NPF
file. NERO wants .NBI.
Is there anyway to do a selective restore from these image disks with
one of the disks bad?

AFAIK, image backups work as a set. Think your best bet is to look for
hard disk fix, maybe by booting from cd.
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Mike Richter - The Slimiest Friggin SOB (UDF)
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UDF is an unreliable format
UDF is a fragile format

The format is very fragile and unreliable.

There is an inherent problem in UDF,
particularly with fixed-length packets

The faults of fixed-length packets are in the format,
not in the specific software which implements UDF.
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But then again:

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From: Mike Richter (The Slimiest Friggin ****)
Date: 5/4/06
Subject: UDF Has just bit me in the bum

I have used UDF for many years, but yesterday I had my first
corruption. I am now wondering whether to bother with UDF

First, your problem is not with UDF
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Mikey, you are The Slimiest Friggin SOB!
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Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
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(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)

On 15 Jul 2006 22:22:04 -0700, "MrBill" wrote:

Is there anything I can do with these cd's except use them for
coasters???????

I have battled with this for 2 months and cannot get anything restored.

I hope somebody can help.

I had a similar problem with a friend's backup using NTI. I was
unable to resolve it.

Since then, I've switched to Acronis True Image (www.acronis.com),
which works great, and have done dozens of restores - mostly image
restores on group laptops from the boot CD, but a few disaster
recoveries as well.

If your backups are really important to you, it's a good idea to test
them now and again.


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Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer