Transfer of Quicken 97 data to new computer with @+Q-2007

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

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dampshop
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I'd bet that if you install the UDF reader, you will see the other files.

Jim

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JimH

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wbertram

Older versions of Quicken and/or Windows required a two step CD backup process which was not always automatic.

The first step (and presumed to be the only step by many users) wrote the CD-ready backup files into a temporary location on the hard drive.

Quicken then announced that the files were backed up.

However a second step was required to actually write the files to CD. Windows then brought up an explorer window showing any files already on the CD along with the new backup files ready to be written to the CD. At that point the user needed to select "write these files to CD". If that step was missed, no files were written to CD.

Later versions of Quicken handle the whole process automatically. When completed, an explorer window pops up showing the new backup files recorded on the CD.

Is there any indication that the Quicken data files actually exist on the CD? I wouldn't think that the new CD drive would care what kind of drive wrote the files.

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Dick Ballard

Dick:

I have installed the UDF Reader, but the files are still not visible. On Win98/Q97, I always selected the CD drive letter in the back-up menu and always got a message saying "A file already exists on this drive - do you wish to over-write it?" Also, as far as I can remember, W98 Explorer would actually show about 5MB of data in (I think) 6 files under an assortment of filename beginning with "Q".

Son-in-law is getting some file recovery software and will try to pull the data off the old hard drive, which was reformatted but hasn't been written to.

Frank Damp

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dampshop

P.S.

I remember that the old CD drive software had two different ways of recording data. One was for a CD that was for "data to be used on this computer" and the other was for "data to be read by any other computer".

I suspect that Q97 used the "this computer" version. I'm searching for additional info from HP and from Roxio-Adaptec, but haven't done very well so far.

Frank Damp

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dampshop

This looks like my last shot at getting some help, so I'll reiterate my situation.

Adaptec, whoaw software the drive used, sold its CD line to Roxio and they don't want to know. Intuiit doesn't provide support on anything earlier than 2004 and I haven't heard from Hewlett-Packard, whose drive hardware it was.

When I made back-ups to CD from Q97 Deluxe, I got positive evidence that the disk drive was running. It would't record until the disk had initialized and I couldn't eject the disk until it had finished. I don't think it was kidding me by recording the back-up to somewhere on the hard drive when it mad it very plain it was recording to CD.

When you went to create a CD on that particular CD system, it offered a disk that "could be read on any CD drive" or one that contained "data that can be read by this computer". The former made a CD that could not be edited, on either the recording computer or another one, even if it was a re-writable disk. I suspect that, since the Quicken data could be written over the previous file, that the recording was unique to the computer on which it was created.

Does anyone know if any of the Quicken versions between 97 deluxe and

07 would enable me to progressively update the data (provided I could borrow copies of the various versions) and which of the older versions between 97 and 07 are XP compatible?

I'm stuck with two XP Home Edition computers with no way to revert back to 98SE. Son-in-law is trying to recover data from the 98SE box's hard drive, which has not been written to after it was re-formatted. I'm also trying to find someone with a 98 box in Northwest Washington that I can install my Q97 program onto and hopefully read the back-up disks. I'm sure that the QData files are on there, just not recognizable by current hardware and software.

Frank Damp Anacortes, WA

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dampshop

You do NOT need a 98 box to re-install your Q97. Under XP, I am able to install old Quicken software.

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sharx35

Frank,

It is possible that the CD's were recorded with multiple sessions. I seem to remember accidentally creating a disk like that by selecting the option that you described to make it readable anywhere.

In that case, the files are in a session that is not visible to the software you are using. Here is a URL to a web page that explains how to recover data from such a CD. The software they suggest is ISOBuster.

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There is also unformat software available for your hard drive. Just do a google search on "unformat hard drive". You will find plenty of software available.

Good luck.

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JimH

JimH wrote in news:LlPLi.5409$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe09.phx:

I have used Isobuster with good results (to recover what appeared to be lost files on a CD).

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Han

All is recovered. Son-in-law was able to extract the automatic back-up files from the old hard drive. I loaded them on the new computer, translated them from 99 Deluxe to 07 Deluxe and restored the data. It took me about 90 minutes to repeat the inputs we'd made after starting Q07 as a new installation, and we're still struggling with the way it translated our IRA stuff.

I guess we'll get used to the "New and Improved" version of Quicken eventually, but I think we'd like to get 99 Deluxe back again! There are some really weird effects in Q07. I'll have to print off the user guide, I guess. Even for an 8-year user, Q07 is definitely different.

Frank Damp

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dampshop

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