Re: Rescuing data from DVD

John Bayley wrote:
Alas, on trying to run the backup, I ran into a seemingly
unsurmountable obstacle. The DVD gives out an I/O error. The
directories are all there, however all the data on closer inspection
seems to be read as plain text format.

What do you mean by that? All files are 'plain text' and most
configuration files can even be read by humans.

They seem to be the correct size
in kb, but of course cannot be read, as the various formats (.zip,
.exe, .doc, .qdb and so on) are not properly recognized, even when
attempting to be accessed through the programs they are related to
(Word, Quicken, etc).

Those are Windows programs. No idea how to solve that.

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