In microsoft.public.money, J. Memmott wrote:

<snip> If I try to
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First, write-protect that floppy with the little slider. Do *not*
consider solutions that want to make modifications directly to the
bad diskette.

If you cannot copy the contents of that floppy to your hard drive,
the problem is not Money. It is the drive or the floppy. Media
failure is most probable, but things are not hopeless.

I would try to copy the contents of that floppy using a different
drive. Ask a few friends. Drive-to-drive variations can make the
difference.

Next I would look into a service or maybe a program. The service
would have the higher probability of success I think. A program
would probably be cheaper, but if it fails there would be that much
more wear to the floppy before you resort to a service. I don't have
knowledge of who is good. Here are a couple searches to get you
started:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...y.&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...kette.recovery

I am surprised that Money 2004 was able to fit the backup to a
single floppy. USB Flash drives are really nice for backup, and are
more reliable than floppies.

OK, now I've really had it! This is my last resort!
Several years ago, while using Money 97, our computer
crashed. We had backed up every time we used money, so I
thought we were OK. However, we could never get the
backup file to pull up after fixing the computer and
everything was lost. I vowed that this would not happen
again, so I tried backing up on a ZIP disk instead, and
then on CDs. I also got on this newsgroup and got the
advice that I needed to first copy the backup file onto
the desktop and open it from there. I tried doing that
with the old program, and it seemed to work. I thought
the problem was solved. However, in December we got a
new computer and upgraded to Money 2004 Deluxe. I went
back to backing up on a floppy because I figured not
using the "copy to the desktop" technique had been the
whole problem in the first place. Well, our new computer
had a problem a couple months ago. I had backed up the
checkbook, but during this problem, I was able to get
into safe mode and backed it up again just in case I had
missed anything.

We ended up having to reformat the computer to solve the
problem, but I felt safe knowing I'd backed things up.
Once everything was reinstalled, I tried to restore the
backup. I tried opening the backup from the disk, and it
wouldn't work, and then I remembered that I would
probably have to copy it onto the desktop and then open
it, so I tried that. It still didn't work. Basically
what happens is if I go into the program (Microsoft
Money) and click on Restore under the File menu, it goes
through the process a while, then says that the file is
corrupted or it is not a Money backup file (it has the
money icon and everything by it though...). If I try to
copy it, it works for a long time, and then gives me a
data error, which says "cyclic redundancy check" in
parenthesis after. Then I found something in the Money
program that said it would repair corrupted files, so I
tried that. After working for a while, a pop-up message
comes up that says "Invalid Data base." If I view
the "Log" for the process, it says there are "no broken
records in the original." So, I am at a loss! Maybe I
just have a bad disk and I am out of luck, but I don't
know why it wouldn't have told me the disk was bad every
time I used it. This is extremely frustrating! I don't
know why I even use the program if I'm bound to lose
everything if we ever have a computer problem. Someone
please help or at least put me out of my misery!