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oh SHOOT...HELP, Floppy disc problem!
A2597
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in Zocalo v2.0
OK, Mom's PC was REALLY slowing down, so I formatted it. I made backups of everything, including the only quicken I could find, onto CD.
Quicken also backs up onto TWO SEPERATE flopies.
format done. goto get quicken data from the CD...ok, somehow TWO versions of quicken were installed, and I got the wrong one. no data there. OK, two floppies have the data.
Floppy #1: Reads fine, but apparently quicken NEVER backed up onto it. there is no quicken data. Werider still, there are two photos on it, I formatted that disc before giving it to mom to use for quicken, and mom keeps the quicken disc in a special place so it is only used for quicken.
Floppy #2: has the quicken data files, four of them one has the data we need. the other three copy fine. the one we NEED gets about 95% done, and just...quits reading. floppy is wirring and whining, but it cannot read that last few bytes!!!
so, is there ANY WAY to get that file?!?
HELP!!! Thats five YEARS of quicken data on that file, and it's the ONLY BACKUP that worked!
Quicken also backs up onto TWO SEPERATE flopies.
format done. goto get quicken data from the CD...ok, somehow TWO versions of quicken were installed, and I got the wrong one. no data there. OK, two floppies have the data.
Floppy #1: Reads fine, but apparently quicken NEVER backed up onto it. there is no quicken data. Werider still, there are two photos on it, I formatted that disc before giving it to mom to use for quicken, and mom keeps the quicken disc in a special place so it is only used for quicken.
Floppy #2: has the quicken data files, four of them one has the data we need. the other three copy fine. the one we NEED gets about 95% done, and just...quits reading. floppy is wirring and whining, but it cannot read that last few bytes!!!
so, is there ANY WAY to get that file?!?
HELP!!! Thats five YEARS of quicken data on that file, and it's the ONLY BACKUP that worked!
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"File recovered sucsessfully, please choose location to save"
*Choses location*
*We're sorry, this is a limited version of BadCopyPro, you must register this version to save files"
^&(*^*#@#$!!! Enough to make me NOT buy it!
There are oodles of programs around that do the same thing. Have a look on google.
There are a few others mentioned on [URL=http://www.ibo-business.com/ibo-floppy-recovery-report.htm]this[/URL] site, you could try them and maybe they'll work (for free)
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[url]http://www.tucows.com/filerecovery95_default.html[/url]
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Phi [/i]
[B]There are a few others mentioned on [URL=http://www.ibo-business.com/ibo-floppy-recovery-report.htm]this[/URL] site, you could try them and maybe they'll work (for free)[/B][/QUOTE]
Yeah, there seems to be few program that sould be free.
[url]http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/[/url]
I wonder what are limitations in these:
[url]http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/[/url]
Size is "pretty" big. :eek: (are they making programs a'la "Macrosoft"?)
[url]http://www.geocities.com/systechsoftware/recover/[/url]
I don't know how well it works so use at your own risk. (link is towards the bottom)
[B]GAH! it WORKED.
"File recovered sucsessfully, please choose location to save"
*Choses location*
*We're sorry, this is a limited version of BadCopyPro, you must register this version to save files"
^&(*^*#@#$!!! Enough to make me NOT buy it! [/B][/QUOTE]
Well, is $40.00 worth 5 years of financial data? :)
[B][url]www.astalavista.com[/url] :) [/B][/QUOTE]
Last time I looked for a program using that, it had a virus. Serves me right I suppose :P Use at your own risk...
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[B][url]www.astalavista.com[/url] :) [/B][/QUOTE]
Wrong address.
1. Choose program
2. turn off pop-ups and javascript (and other security holes if you're using IE)
3. Search with program name: [url]http://astalavista.box.sk/[/url] (now you know why to turn of pop-ups)
Seriously though A####, did you get yer stuff back?
soo, will save mom some time for plugging it back in, but she'll still have alot of work to do. :(
thanks for all the help though guys. four forums, and this is the least traveled, and you guys are the only ones that helped. :D
The check's on its way, right?