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Restore floppies to new computer not working Steve 07-13-2007
Posted by Phil Nelson on July 13, 2007, 8:05 pm
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 Steve wrote:
> 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

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.

--
Phil Nelson

Posted by Allan Martin on July 14, 2007, 10:20 am
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> 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


Purchase a USB floppy drive. Very inexpensive.



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