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

Posted by dampshop on September 25, 2007, 11:47 am

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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

Posted by JimH on September 25, 2007, 1:09 pm

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dampshop@msn.com wrote:

> 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.

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

Jim

Posted by wbertram on September 25, 2007, 4:09 pm

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You might find some help here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format

dampshop@msn.com wrote:

> 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

Posted by Dick Ballard on September 26, 2007, 2:21 am

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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.

Dick Ballard
ballardr@att.net

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:47:28 -0700, dampshop@msn.com wrote:

>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

Posted by dampshop on September 26, 2007, 3:46 pm

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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