thanks for the advice, will take all you have said into consideration and
try them out.
once again many thanks

JIm Ward

In microsoft.public.money, Jim Ward wrote:

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That would be nice if it were the drive rather than the media.

I would see if any of my friend's machine can copy that file to a
hard drive, in case drive-to-drive variations let it work.

There are floppy data recovery services, but they can be expensive.
I have not tried it. There are programs that try to recover the
data, but I would not use one that tried to make changes to the same
floppy. Keep that diskette write-protected until you give up.

For future reference, USB flash drives tend to be more reliable than
floppies.

I am afraid that i did have to format the hard drive.
the back up is on only 1 diskette. (only home accounts)
I have backups(archives) for 02/03/04/ on seperate floppys for the last 3
years and these are ok.
I always backed up the data on a daily basis.
I could put all the data back in but as you know this is very time
consuming, but also i have lots of other details like contact numbers, pin
numbers and passwords, unfortunatly this is the only record that i had of
these.
the file says Home Accounts Backup d1. I have tried putting the data onto
the hard drive but it wont let me access it, beginning to think that it
could be the floppy drive that s gone,
any thoughts or ideas will be much appreciated
thanks in advance
Jim Ward

Bummer.

No, the file can't be opened in Excel, but perhaps it can be opened in
Money.

What version of Money was the file last used in? UK 2005?

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In microsoft.public.money, Jim Ward wrote:

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Write-protect that floppy with the slider now. And search for more
floppies.

Your backup is to a single floppy? Usually there is more than one
floppy. If there is just one, follow the procedure below, but expect
there only to be a file named *d1.mbf.



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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.

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No.

It may be possible to restore a file from the old hard drive. It may
be too late. In retrospect, it would have been much better to get a
new hard drive instead of formatting the drive that held your Money
files. You did not say you formatted the old drive, but you did not
say you did not.

Hi
My computer crashed and i had to reboot the whole system. I had saved a
back up to floppy disc. However when i try to restore the back up it says
that the file is corrupt. Is there any way that i can restore this file. It
is showing on the floppy as a money back up file but wont open. Can i open
it up in any other program such as excell
thanks in advance