So, my laptop's hard drive died last week in New Orleans. (What I get for computing outside when there's pollen around). I was able to put in a new hard drive, and then used the OEM Windows XP recovery disks to format the drive.
Unfortunately, the process formatted my backup external USB drive (which I had stupidly left plugged in), and not the internal drive. By the time I had realized it, the data was gone.
Fortunately, I was able to fnd some software
Unfortunately, it was not able to find any Quicken files saved since January '04.
Fortunately, I was able to download 18 months of transactions from most of my banks.
Unfortunately, several of them were only able to provide data in the QIF format.
I have Quicken 2003 on a CD, and have re-downloaded Quicken 2005. I do not have Quicken 2004, and I don't think I can get a copy from Intuit.
So, what are my best options for trying to recreate my files? I can't really start fresh, since I have investments which need to be tracked over long periods of time.
Thanks in advance.
J