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Restore floppies to new computer not working

Hi, Our old computer harddrive crashed (XP). We had to get a new computer. It has Vista. We have older backup floppies of out .QBB?) files, about 7 disks, it looks like it spans them?

We also bought the latest quickbooks pro 2007 for the new computer. The old version was maybe 2003, I have to check.

I am trying to restore the data from the old computer via floppy disks (and guess what, there is no floppy drive on the new computer). I copied the floppies to the desktop via a USB drive.

I try to "open or restore data" from the first floppy folder, and I tell it a location to restore to, but it seems to do nothing.

Do I need to combine the floppy files into one file? Same issue with older XP floppies. Has no-one thought of this in the restore department?

Thanks for any ideas, it should be easier. steve

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Steve
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If you have no luck with other, easier methods I would install 2003 or 2007 on a computer with a Floppy drive. Restore the information and save to a USB (Flash Drive) in the .qbw format. Then take the Flash drive to the new computer.

Reply to
Joanne

I would also suggest taking your old computer to a local computer repair place to see if they can get anything off of the old hard drive. They have tools available to recover data off of crashed hard drives. You'll need to be able to tell him where your data (qbw) file was stored.

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Laura

It would be a lot cheaper to install a floppy drive in the new computer. You could probably take the floppy drive out of your old computer. Perhaps an adapter cable or two, shouldn't cost more than $15. Even if it won't physically mount in your new case, you can set it on something long enough to get your data copied.

Bob

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RobertM

It sounded like the current file was lost on the crashed hard drive and all that they had was an OLD backup file on floppies. Nobody uses floppies anymore. Trying to get a current file plus anything else that might be considered toast is worth the money involved.

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Laura

Quickbooks support should be able to tell you whether QB2007 can restore from whatever version you had. I don't know, but I guess it can, because it would be sort of evil (though not unprecedented in the industry) for the newer version not to have the ability to restore the backup files of the older version.

It is possible that the restoration of multi-volume backup sets will only work coming from the same kind of device they were saved to.

That's a guess, but if you can't get a better answer, it might be worth investing in a floppy drive to find out. If it's too hard (or silly) to install a floppy in your new computer, there are plug in (USB) floppies that might work as well for this task.

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Phil Nelson

Purchase a USB floppy drive. Very inexpensive.

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Allan Martin

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