In microsoft.public.money, Vicki wrote:

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A service on that single bad floppy could work. You already tried
some recovery program that tried to write to the disk, didn't you???
That is where you got the disk full indication I thought. What were
you running when you got that indication?

It is also possible that a friend's computer could read the bad
floppy due to drive-to-drive variations.

Here is a Google search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ecovery+floppy
Picking one that lists a price at random, I see $30 from
http://www.icanrecoverit.com/mfrec.htm

I have no knowledge of who is good at that.

In microsoft.public.money, Vicki wrote:

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There are programs and services that can try to recover flakey
floppies. Sometimes other computers can read a floppy due to
drive-to-drive variations. But those will generally not work after a
recovery program has tried and failed to make repairs directly to
the floppy.

Thanks for your reply. Tried posting to my previous
thread, but my message never appeared.

Re your suggestion: By the time I started posting to
this board, the floppy was already corrupted and I
couldn't access my Money program due to errors on the
computer as a result of uninstalling my son's games,
which was why I had to reformat. I couldn't even
copy/paste files at that point. If I'd known my backups
were corrupted before this whole mess happened, I could
have made new ones. As it was it wouldn't have done any
good to copy the original floppy. Oh well, experience is
the best teacher.
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Actually, I did such a search and there is software out
there for about $40. Am trying to decide if I want to
invest that much in something that may not work and that
I will probably not use again. I may just give up the
old data and start from scratch.

Re the other replies. It turned out not to be a problem
with my Money version, just a bad floppy. I've learned
my lesson about not using the same one over and over.
Why continually upgrade software if the one you have
works fine? I prefer not to contribute anymore than I
have to to the waste stream. Anyway, will be more
careful with my backups in the future.
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sad....people dont' read the answers here or in the
security newsgroup.....

might be time to get money2003 or 2004.???????

why is it people pay 1000.00 for computer and not spend a
few more for updated software.


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In microsoft.public.money, Vicki wrote:

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If you posted on your old thread, that would have been a lot easier.

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But I looked back anyway. I see that you did not follow this
suggestion: "I would write-protect the backup you have and make an
extra copy in case that media were to fail."

Sadly, I fear your assessment is correct.

From your description, I think you're sc****d as well.

You might try the floppies on some other machines--sometimes you can get
lucky this way, other times it gets worse as the other floppy drives you try
are filthy and further damage the diskettes.

You might do a google search for "data recovery" and check out some of the
services that dabble in this stuff. You will probably find that your data
isn't worth that much.

Going forward, I'd recommend you think long and hard about developing a
reliable backup scheme. See the FAQ http://www.bollar.org/msmoney/#Q69 for
elements of such a scheme.

"Vicki" <vlw275[at]ecentral.com> wrote in message
news:b38101c3814a$ebe78ed0$a601280a[at]phx.gbl...
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After reformatting & reinstalling, Money 2000 won't
restore my backups (see previous posts). I ran an error
check on the floppy--it has multiple errors. Some were
automatically corrected but I got 2 mssgs that there is
not enough room on the floppy to correct error. Tried to
copy the floppy to my hard drive with Win Explorer and in
DOS--couldn't do it. Is there anything else I can do to
retrieve any of my data?