Need to recover old archived files

[weeber]

I'm trying to recover some old archived files for work. The main problem is I'm not sure exactly what program was used to archive it. It's a file that was spanned over two 3.5" disks, and the file names are teh following:
backup.001
backup.002
control.001
control.002

Both the .001 files are on disk one and the .002 files are on disk two. Here's the confusing part, written on disk 1 it says to use recover.exe to restore the file. However, on disk two it says to use unpak.exe to unarchive the files. Also on disk two is a copy of unpack.exe

When I try running unpack.exe from the "Run" command in WinXP I get a bad CRC error. I'm not sure if this is because it's not a pak file (most likely), because I'm running WinXP, or if the file is really corrupt. Unfortunately WinXP doesn't appear to come with restore.exe, so I guess I'll have to download it. Does anyone know if this will work in WinXP. I thought about using an old DOS boot disk and running restore from that, but I won't have anyplace to copy the file to since I'm pretty sure DOS will not recognize NTFS hard drives.

Anybody have other options I can look at? This is the type of stuff I used to do all the time growing up, but I guess years of using Windows has made me lazy and stupid.

 

[biostud]

try winrar or another windows based packing program, try to view the file in notepad to see any info about which program what was used to store the files.

 

[weeber]

Thanks,

I've tried both WinRAR and WinZip and neither of them recognize the file. If push comes to shove, I've got an old laptop I can install DOS 6.22 on and see if I can get restore.exe to work. It's looking more and more that this is the program I need to use.