

Please do not suggest using a later version as this is the latest version that (1) will run on a Windows XP Pro box and (2) that supports the tape drive. The end results appears to be that "no problems were found" but Backup Exec reports that the tapes have inconsistent data.Īny suggestions on how to make the tapes readable by Backup Exec would be appreciated. Why does the drive think I am using "very old tapes not designed for this drive"? The tapes were witten to by this drive. The tape that was used in the analysis was a maxlell HS-4/125s DDS3 tape - the same type that was used to create the backup tapes. ||_ Testing has completed and no problems were found. ||_ Non-MRS tapes tapes have been inserted 3 times. ||_ You appear to be using very old tapes not designed for this drive. ||_ Unsupported tapes have been inserted 6 times. ||_ Please use tapes that are compatible with your product.

||_ You appear to have used tapes not designed for this drive. Test 'DDS Drive Assessment Test' started on device 'HP C1537A' at address '6/0.0.0' I ran the HP analysis utilities using one of the tapes as a scratch tape (to write over): I tried to run the HP analysis utility but it said the error log of the drive was full and it would be necessary to do a firmware load to clear it. In trying to recover the data I constantly get an error that says the data on the tape is inconsistent. The machine used Backup Exec to create the tapes.

I have been tasked with recovering data from an old Windows XP machine with an HP C1537A DDS3 tape drive.

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