Restore from bad image backup

I am wondering if you have a solution for my problem explained below:

I am running Windows 2000 sp4.
I have a backup of my 250gig hard disk on 13 CD's.
My 1st problem started when my Shuttle 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. Anyway, at this point the drive has been formatted several times in the several restore attempts.

Problem number 2. I try to restore and the 2nd cd disk is bad. I tried 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 you can provide some help.
Thanks,

MrBill

 

Hi mrbillr,

If you don't have the complete backup set it will not work. Can you read disk 2 on another system? Sometimes different cd rom drives will read disks where others will not. If so you might try to burn another copy of disk 2.

 

I am currently in the process of cloning this backup and writing on a different "writer" hoping the laser on that drive gets a better burn than my previous drive.
Hopefully the "copied" backup will work.