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i didn't set a password for my backup file

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Hello guys...
i just backup my family photos (mostly my children) for the last 8 years. a week after i reinstalled my windows due to BIOS update.
Anyhow after trying to recover these files the system asking for a password ??? while in the first i DIDN"T put such. trying my two regular passwords didn’t help... (of course)
i seems that something is corrupted or i don't know what is wrong...

Thanks in advance

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Did you try just hitting enter at the password prompt?

Tal,

Does the archive validate normally?

Did you try to recover from the recovery CD?

Another thing to try is to:
- create a system backup,
- install the trial of ATI 2011,
- use it to create a new recovery CD,
- try with that recovery CD

Hello Pat

I'm not sure about the validation - if it is done by default then the answer will be yes.
i tried to point this archive while using the recovery disk I’ve created in advance - it was done before the machine has booted from the HDD. the same scenario it is keeping and asking for a password.
As for what you have suggested, what is the logic behind that? why the creation of a new recovery CD may help?
Maybe i have a wrong interpretation for what is the recovery CD... my meaning is for the console app which is being loaded while restarting the machine.

Thanks, Tal.

Here is the logic:
- if there is a password and you don't know it, you are toast. There is nothing you can do,
- if the password request is linked to some other image issue, ie the image is corrupted, and you cannot mount the image then:
* we need to get windows out of the picture. Using the recovery CD does that better than the pre-boot, because you can get the latest bootable media for your version, wherease the pre-boot environment is linked to the version you have installed,
* if there is an image issue linked to version of image versus version of recovery environment, using the latest version might solve it since there is alwasy backward compatibility