Thanks for all the suggestions. In the end I was able to restore the
backup by burning the contents of each floppy disk to a different CD.

Jeff

You might try this as it works for some installations that are meant to
install from floppy disk.

Make note of the disk labels on the floppy - if you go to My Computer, the
label should show up on drive a or you can right-click the drive and choose
Properties and you will see it listed next to Label - I suspect that they
will be disk1, & disk2. Create a new text file named the same as each
label - right click an empty place on your desktop and choose New, Text file
and give it the desired name. Do not use an extension. You will get an
error message about changing the extension but ignore it. Copy these two
files to the CD along with your data files. Now when your restore looks for
Disk2, it will find the label and then should also find the data file
associated with this disk label.

Another way to do this is to create sub folders named using the disk label
(disk1, disk2) and copy the data from each disk into these folders.

PattyL


"Jeff" <jeff_terry10[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Jeff wrote:

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I would copy each file from the backup floppies to the same
directory/folder (top level is fine) on that CD.

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.

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. Restoring to your "My Documents" folder would be a good
choice.

Is there another file on the second floppy disk that identifies it as disk
2? If so, copy that file to the CD, as well. Or, how about ejecting the CD
and putting it back in, so Money thinks the disk was changed?
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL


"Jeff" <jeff_terry10[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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My computer recently died, and I had to pick up a new one. Fortunately,
I had current backups of my Money file on floppy. Unfortuantely, the
new computer does not have a floppy drive. I've tried burning the
backup files to a CD and restoring from there, but the Money restore
program keeps prompting me for a second disk. (My backup file is big
enough to require two floppies.) I've tried clicking OK with the CD in
the drive (both backup files are on the same CD) but it doesn't
recognize the second backup file.

Does anyone know a way to work around this?