The CRC (cyclic redundancy check) error is a Bad Thing. It says the problem
is below the level Money can deal with. Money expects the system to be able
to get it the data correctly and this says that the system cannot do this.

Sometimes you can read floppies with CRCs in one system successfully on
another. Not often. There may be services/tools to recover the data, but it
may not be worth the trouble/cost. What next? Probably start over in M07
and, next time, develop more robust backup strategies. Luckily M07 has
somewhat improved tools to help with this. But it also makes backing up to
floppies painful since it won't erase the old ones. It also tends to
encourage backing up to the same hard disk--or a different disk on a machine
on the network, something relatively few of us have. It does support backing
up to CDs as you suggest. That's a better choice.

Three backup recommendations for data as important as your Money data:

1) Never depend on just one media type
2) Always make sure your backups have backups
3) Occasionally test your backups to make sure they really are.

"martha" <martha[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks Dick for answering. My hard drive crashed last week, so this is a new
hard drive. No earlier version, only new Money 2007. The only back up I had
was 2 floppies (I've learned that lesson, will now do CD backups). I tried
to copy the 2 floppies to my desktop. The first one gave me an error,
corrupted message; cyclic redundancy. The 2nd one copied without incident to
the desktop. Is there a way to repair the first disk? Or what next?

"Dick Watson" wrote:

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You are trying to restore an M02 floppy backup in M07? You say "recover
[your] history". Did you move to a new machine? M07 should have
detected/upgraded your M02 file automatically if installed on the same
machine as the machine that ran M02. At any rate, moving the .MNY file, via
writable CD or USB flash drive or network, is almost alway a better choice
than going through a backup.

Set the write-protect shutters on the floppies--especially if this is your
only source of the data.

Can you copy the file from each of the floppies in your backup to the hard
disk, say your Desktop?

"martha" <martha[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I am getting messages that my files are corrupted or that the identified file
may not be a Money file. Does this mean I need to follow some other process
to recover my history now that I have installed Money 2007?