Hi Laura,
It could be that they've recovered the information about the files
from the disc's directory, but not the content of the files. Please
e-mail me a copy of ONE of the files in question I'll be able to give
you a better answer.
Good luck
Ray
(At 9:41 am +0100 16/6/00, Laura Madrigal-Estebas wrote:
>Hi,
>
>we've got a big problem. We have, in our laboratory, a
>FACscan, running CellQuest software and we keep all our data in
>zip disks. Recently, our zip drive got damaged and destroyed the
>data from the disks. We sent the disks for data recovery. The
>company (Ontrack) managed to rescue the files out of the disks
>and we can see the items and the names of the files. However,
>when we try to open them in CellQuest, WinMDI or Flow Explorer,
>we are told that the files are not in FCS format. Would someone
>know how I could still try to access that data?
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Laura Madrigal-Estebas, PhD
>Research Laboratory Coordinator
>Education and Research Centre
>St. Vincent's University Hospital
>Elm Park
>Dublin 4
>Ireland
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Ray Hicks
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