In microsoft.public.money, khuss wrote:

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Keep one or more copies of that file before proceeding. If Money at
least recognizes it as a Money file, then try salv.exe.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902466

If not, perhaps the recovery messed up the first few characters. The
file should start with bytes with these hex values:
00 01 00 00 4D 53 49 53 41.
If you don't know how to use a hex/binary editor, you may know
somebody who does.

You could try contacting support.microsoft.com/money/ and clicking
Contacts. See if they have an idea for you.

I am not saying it is likely you will recover. :-( It is still
worth a long-shot try IMO.

I had to use floppies since I lost the data from hard drive. The first
floppy is the one corrupted so I can't really get anywhere.

I recovered the file from harddrive using some tools however, MS Money
doesn;t like the file. I used the recovery tool of Money and it said it
successfully recovered the file. Even then, I can't open it in Money. Seem
like I am really stuck here.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, khuss wrote:

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If that software wrote to the problem floppy, rather than creating a
new floppy, I doubt it.

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, and *d2.mbf.

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 your floppies were read successfully, you will be able to
restore. If not, I hold little hope. What about the hard drive you
were using?

If successful, 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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Here is the process I would have suggested originally:

First, write-protect both floppies with the little slider. Do not
consider solutions that want to make modifications directly to the
bad diskette.

I would copy each file from the backup floppies to the same
directory/folder. This will give you an extra backup of the good
floppy separate any problems of reading the floppy media from some
other potential problem.


The files will be named *d1.mbf, *d2.mbf.

Presumably you will fail when you try to copy the *d2.mbf file.
First, write-protect both floppies with the little slider. Do not
consider solutions that want to make modifications directly to the
bad diskette.

I would copy each file from the backup floppies to the same
directory/folder. This will give you an extra backup of the good
floppy separate any problems of reading the floppy media from some
other potential problem.


The files will be named *d1.mbf, *d2.mbf.

Presumably you will fail when you try to copy the *d2.mbf file.

Here are two search terms that could have found a service or a
different program: diskette.recovery and also
floppy+recovery.service.

I am trying to restore backup from my two floppies. However, one floppy has
a bad track so I used a commercial software to extract the file. Now,
Microsoft Money is complaining that it is a bad/corrupted file. The backup
files have extension .mbf.
Does anyone know if there is any way to recover these backup files?

Thanks for your help