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From: bobw@wdl1.UUCP (Robert Lee Wilson Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: restore problem, 3.2 vs 3.3?
Message-ID: <4160013@wdl1.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 88 21:03:17 GMT
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Maybe I did not make one thing clear enough in my first posting. I got
around the problem, I am just trying to protect someone who had formatted
the disk as a part of upgrading. The 3.3 manual explicitly states that it
_will_ read 3.x backups. I realize that (1) the format on the hard disk is
slightly different between 3.2 and 3.3, and (2) the backup format has also
changed, but MS has "advertised" that their program can deal with this.

The use of the 3.2 boot and restore off of a floppy was the next thing I
was going to experiment with... Thanks for saving me from having to try
it. I have tried all of the things you would expect to be appropriate on
the basis of the 3.3 manual, however, and none of them work.

Thanks also to the people who emailed suggestions. So far nothing which
involved reading a 3.2 backup with 3.3 restore has worked!
Thus we seem to have a real "undocumented feature", i.e. a bug.
Bob Wilson (bobw@ford-wdl1.arpa)