MS Money 2001 File Lost

I sufferred a major virus attack recently and during the recovery have
apparently lost my MS Money files from January 2006 to date (1995 to
2006 are OK). My file was backed up on two floppies but the first
one has been corrupted and I cannot download disk 2 into the Money
program. I don't know if disk 2 covers Jan '06 to Apr '08
completely but anything would be easier than re-entering every
transaction manually! Does anyone have a solution please?

Cal
Mon Apr 28 10:15:17 CDT 2008

In microsoft.public.money, dave.kriesler@ukonline.co.uk wrote:

>I sufferred a major virus attack recently and during the recovery have
>apparently lost my MS Money files from January 2006 to date (1995 to
>2006 are OK). My file was backed up on two floppies but the first
>one has been corrupted and I cannot download disk 2 into the Money
>program. I don't know if disk 2 covers Jan '06 to Apr '08
>completely but anything would be easier than re-entering every
>transaction manually! Does anyone have a solution please?

Probably not, but it's worth a try.

But first, if you have not formatted the infected disk, I would
mount that disk as a secondary data disk in another computer. Search
it for *.mny and *.mbf files.

If you want to try to use the floppies, 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.

You can try reading that file to the hard drive of another computer
or two. Sometimes drive-to-drive variations will let a different
machine read it. Sometimes wiggling the diskette in the drive as it
is churning during a read retry will change the alignment just
enough to succeed.

Otherwise I would seek out a disk recovery service or program, with
the service probably having the higher likelihood of success. I
don't know who is good or not, however.

Here are some searches that will give some info, but I don't have
knowledge of the products. Plug each into your favorite search
engine:

diskette.recovery
floppy+recovery.service

If you succeed in getting good *d1.mbf, *d2.mbf onto that hard drive
folder, In Windows Explorer, double-click the *d1.mbf file. That
should launch Money and start the restore. When Money prompts for
the next diskette, click OK.

dave
Mon Apr 28 13:04:42 CDT 2008

On 28 Apr, 16:15, Cal Learner-- MVP <via_newsgr...@please.tnx> wrote:
> In microsoft.public.money, dave.kries...@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
> >I sufferred a major virus attack recently and during the recovery have
> >apparently lost myMSMoneyfiles from January 2006 to date (1995 to
> >2006 are OK). =A0 Myfilewas backed up on two floppies but the first
> >one has been corrupted and I cannot download disk 2 into theMoney
> >program. =A0 =A0 I don't know if disk 2 covers Jan '06 to Apr '08
> >completely but anything would be easier than re-entering every
> >transaction manually! =A0 =A0 Does anyone have a solution please?
>
> Probably not, but it's worth a try.
>
> But first, if you have not formatted the infected disk, I would
> mount that disk as a secondary data disk in another computer. Search
> it for *.mny and *.mbf files.
>
> If you want to try to use the floppies, First, write-protect both
> floppies with the little slider. =A0Do not consider solutions that
> want to make modifications directly to the bad diskette.
>
> I would copy eachfilefrom the backup floppies to the same
> directory/folder. =A0This 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.mbffile.
>
> You can try reading thatfileto the hard drive of another computer
> or two. =A0Sometimes drive-to-drive variations will let a different
> machine read it. Sometimes wiggling the diskette in the drive as it
> is churning during a read retry will change the alignment just
> enough to succeed.
>
> Otherwise I would seek out a disk recovery service or program, with
> the service probably having the higher likelihood of success. =A0I
> don't know who is good or not, however.
>
> Here are some searches that will give some info, but I don't have
> knowledge of the products. Plug each into your favorite search
> engine:
>
> diskette.recovery
> floppy+recovery.service
>
> If you succeed in getting good *d1.mbf, *d2.mbf onto that hard drive
> folder, In Windows Explorer, double-click the *d1.mbffile. =A0That
> should launchMoneyand start the restore. =A0WhenMoneyprompts for
> the next diskette, click OK.

Thanks Cal, Wiggling the floppy seems to have done the trick
despite having removed and re-entered it in the A-drive many times
today without success! It just proves that 2 heads are better than
1. I've now backed it to two sets of floppies, but plan to get an
external hard-drive soon. Many thanks, Dave.

Cal
Mon Apr 28 13:35:33 CDT 2008

In microsoft.public.money, dave.kriesler@ukonline.co.uk wrote:

> Wiggling the floppy seems to have done the trick
>despite having removed and re-entered it in the A-drive many times
>today without success! It just proves that 2 heads are better than
>1. I've now backed it to two sets of floppies, but plan to get an
>external hard-drive soon.

That's great!

I suggest you use USB flash drives for backup. They tend to be more
reliable than mechanical systems.

USB flash drives are fairly cheap with some being sold in 4-packs.
You could keep one in the safe deposit box or on your keychain.