Floppys not recognized

[Lon Axelrod]

I had to reinstall my OP. I installed Money 2007 and it won't recognize my
old back-up floppies from Money 2002

[Cal Learner]

In microsoft.public.moneycentral, Lon Axelrod wrote:

>I had to reinstall my OP. I installed Money 2007 and it won't recognize my
>old back-up floppies from Money 2002

The group for Microsoft Money is microsoft.public.money.

I hope you don't have your only backup on a set of floppies.
Floppies are more failure-prone than other media, such as USB flash
drives.

I would copy each file from the backup floppies to the same
directory/folder. This will give you an extra backup and will
separate any problems of reading the floppy media from some other
potential problem. This is not the common way, and it is not
usually necessary. But especially if it is my only backup, I would
consider the copy to hard disk step.

The files will be named *d1.mbf, *d2.mbf, *d3.mbf and so on.

In WE, double-click the *d1.mbf file. That should launch Money and
start the restore. When Money prompts for the next diskette, click
OK.

If you are restoring directly from floppy diskette, you can insert
the first floppy and double click the *d1.mbf file. Change
diskettes when prompted.

You will have a chance to change the location or filename for where
the restored data will go. If this is a different computer, it is
especially good to browse to a location. The old location may not
even exist.

Good luck.

[Cal Learner]

In microsoft.public.moneycentral, Lon Axelrod wrote:

>I had to reinstall my OP. I installed Money 2007 and it won't recognize my
>old back-up floppies from Money 2002

Make sure you write-protect those floppies before proceeding
further.

Also, if one of your floppies has a problem, don't use any kind of
recovery software that requires you to allow writing to the floppy.
on 3� inch floppy disks move the sliding tab to open the hole.

Sometimes a different drive can read a diskette that has trouble in
one drive.