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Hard Drive Backup File

Started by pompanoguy , Feb 12 2005 10:16 AM

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pompanoguy

Posted 12 February 2005 - 10:16 AM

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I recently backed up my 80 gig hard drive by burning the info to DVD. Now, when I want to re-install it to the original re-formatted drive, the disks read a file with the ending .dat and Windows cannot open the file. What can I do or use to open this? Help is appreciated....