File on Backup CD Have No Data - Directory Structure Intact
Tom Drake
Please accept my apologies if I am violating any etiquette rules here. I
have searched to the best of my ability and what I am about to describe I
can not find elsewhere.
I had a really old piece of hardware and backed it up a few years ago.
It was running windows 98 and the drive was partitioned in two. Both
partitions
were FAT.
I am only now opening the data from the C: drive and the directory
structure
of the original drive is present on the media (CD) but any attempt to view
the
information (like opening a .TXT file, etc...) gives the following
information
under Windows Explorer in XP Pro, SP2: "Cannot open the C:\Temp\README.TXT
file. Make sure
a disk is in the drive you specified."
Tools like ISOBuster or CDCheck are able to copy these "phantom" files but
they lose
their size information and all show up as 0 byte files. They can open but
nothing is in
them.
The second partition, drive D:, is fine.
Does anyone have any idea what could have happened at the time of backup?
Furthermore, what are my options at this time?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Cheers,
TB
tom_bertin@hotmail_REMOVETHIS_.com