alnobear Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Purchased A Wester HDD some years ago, did a b/up of my (now gone ) PC and images. I have discovered that the images on the HDD are the only copies I have (stupid me). When I try to open the image files I get the usual" which programme do you want to associatecannot" message, but there are none and the version of retrospect I have cannot be used on a windows 7 machine. Can anyone help as I really want those images back. Thanks 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 You should download a Retrospect 9 trial so that you can access this backup data. http://www.retrospect.com/try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alnobear Posted February 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Hi Robin thanks for the suggestion. I downloaded the trial but when I got to restore files the programme would only look for .rbf and .rbc files. The files in my back-up sets are .rdb so it comes up files not found. Any suggestions? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scillonian Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 You will need to rebuild the backup set's Catalog File (.rbc) from the media's .rdb files. To recreate the catalog go to 'Tools > Repair Catalog > Recreate from disks' and click 'OK'. Click 'All Disks' and follow the prompts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alnobear Posted February 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 Thank you Scillonian, followed your advice but when it came to opening a set it states that it is encrypted. I don't remember doing that and therefore I don't have a password, am I sunk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scillonian Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 Unless you can remember the password then probably yes. The password would have been specified when you first created the backup set. ... and the version of retrospect I have cannot be used on a windows 7 machine. Is the edition of Windows 7 you have one that supports Windows XP Mode? You could try running your old version of Retrospect in the XP virtual machine. However you will still need the password for the backup set unless you have a copy of the config files for the old version of Retrospect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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