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Posted by hawks5999 on September 25, 2007, 10:45 am
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umm... Fire your IT guru for not validating the data backup before
destroying the source data.
On Sep 24, 8:13 pm, damps...@msn.com wrote:
> I recently decommissioned my old (back-up) Win98 computer and replaced
> it with a 2-year old Dell Optiplex.
>
> As I was hacking away at the old box, my IT guru (son-in-law) said
> 'what about your Quicken data", referring to transferring it to the
> new computer. My response was "I've backed it up every few days for
> the last 6 years on CDs, through Quicken. I've followed their
> recommendations and done alternate disks, so I've got two CDs that are
> current."
>
> Based on my confidence, we re-formatted the hard disk from the W98 box
> to re-use as a slave in the new one. After we'd configured the new
> box, Win XP, Sanyo CD-ROM drive, all kinds of speed and power, I
> loaded a copy of Quicken 2007 Pro. After signing in as a user of a
> previous version of Qucken, I tried to load the historical data off
> the archive disk. To my chagrin, the new box said the disk was
> unintelligible. Apparently, Quicken's method of recording the data on
> CD is not in a universally recognized format. but in one related to
> the type of CD drive you have.
>
> When I tried to read the data with a UDF reader, there were no data
> files on the disk, just an aotu-run file and a UDF reader.
>
> Has anyone any guidance as to how I can retrieve 6 years-worth of
> data, that I assumed was saved at twice a week intervals, that seems
> to have been recorded in a format that only Mr. Spock can read?
>
> Frank Damp
> Anacortes, WA
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