I have just retired my old Win98 computer, where 9 years of Quicken 97 data was resident. I have always followed the recommended back-up prompt, and had done a dual back-up to CDs the day I shut the old box down. Son-in-law parts out old computers, so we broke up the old one, including a reconfiguration of its 20Gb hard drive to use as a slave on the new box.
On my new(ish) replacement computer, the OS is WinXP-home and I have Quicken 2007. Everything looked good until I started Q07 and tried to restore the old data. Q07 says the CDs are "damaged or corrupted and cannot be read".
I put them on my other XP computer, which can read them (difference in CD drives, I suppose). Much to my surprise, the only files on either disk are an Adaptec UDF reader and an auto-run for it. There are NO QData files.
Does anyone have any idea why the Qdata files aren't visible to Windows Explorer? If I can just recover the data, I can get it re- recorded onto another disk that my new computer can read (I hope).
Any ideas gratefully received.
Frank Damp Anacortes, WA