My Win XP COMPLETLY CRASHED with a nasty virus. I did not how to recover from
it. I bought a new hard drive and reinstalled XP, starting from scratch. I
have my old hard drive set up as a slave and can access files from it. I
cannot open Money from the old drive, XP is fried. How can I get my Money
file from this old drive, set up as a slave, into my new drive and Money
file. Where do I find it on the old drive?

In microsoft.public.money, Gary wrote:

>My Win XP COMPLETLY CRASHED with a nasty virus. I did not how to recover from
>it. I bought a new hard drive and reinstalled XP, starting from scratch. I
>have my old hard drive set up as a slave and can access files from it. I
>cannot open Money from the old drive, XP is fried. How can I get my Money
>file from this old drive, set up as a slave, into my new drive and Money
>file. Where do I find it on the old drive?

The files you want is your latest *.mny file and your more recent
*.mbf files. You will only need one, but you might as well copy them
all while there. The typically place that you will find the file is
your MyDocuments folder. That would be
"C:\Documents and Settings\userName\my documents" where userName
represents your username on the old machine. If you don't find the
files there, search the whole hard drive for *.mny,*.mbf files.

You may have made a fairly recent backup onto other media such as
USB flash drive. The *.mbf from that would do the job also.

You will need to install Money 2004 on the new machine from the
install disk. If you don't have that, you can buy Money Plus Deluxe
(not Essentials).

During the new install, you can point Money to the *.mny file. You
would only File->Restore a *.mbf file if there was a problem with
the *.mny file. If you restore from a *.mbf file, don't have money
restore to the default location. Instead Browse to your MyDocuments
folder and pick a filename.

Once inside change the backup locations to something that exists on
the new machine. Set up a plan to back up periodically to a USB
flash drive in case your hard drive were to fail in the future.

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:58:19 -0700, Gary
<Gary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My Win XP COMPLETLY CRASHED with a nasty virus. I did not how to recover from
>it. I bought a new hard drive and reinstalled XP, starting from scratch. I
>have my old hard drive set up as a slave and can access files from it. I
>cannot open Money from the old drive, XP is fried. How can I get my Money
>file from this old drive, set up as a slave, into my new drive and Money
>file. Where do I find it on the old drive?

Unless you moved it, Money stores the data file in your documents
folder. On the old drive you should find it at:

<drive>:\Documents and Settings\<user>\<user>'s Documents\

Where <user> is your login name.

George
--
for email reply remove "/" from address

Thank You Cal, that did the trick. I REALLY did not wnt to have to re-enter
all hat data.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

> In microsoft.public.money, Gary wrote:
>
> >My Win XP COMPLETLY CRASHED with a nasty virus. I did not how to recover from
> >it. I bought a new hard drive and reinstalled XP, starting from scratch. I
> >have my old hard drive set up as a slave and can access files from it. I
> >cannot open Money from the old drive, XP is fried. How can I get my Money
> >file from this old drive, set up as a slave, into my new drive and Money
> >file. Where do I find it on the old drive?
>
> The files you want is your latest *.mny file and your more recent
> *.mbf files. You will only need one, but you might as well copy them
> all while there. The typically place that you will find the file is
> your MyDocuments folder. That would be
> "C:\Documents and Settings\userName\my documents" where userName
> represents your username on the old machine. If you don't find the
> files there, search the whole hard drive for *.mny,*.mbf files.
>
> You may have made a fairly recent backup onto other media such as
> USB flash drive. The *.mbf from that would do the job also.
>
> You will need to install Money 2004 on the new machine from the
> install disk. If you don't have that, you can buy Money Plus Deluxe
> (not Essentials).
>
> During the new install, you can point Money to the *.mny file. You
> would only File->Restore a *.mbf file if there was a problem with
> the *.mny file. If you restore from a *.mbf file, don't have money
> restore to the default location. Instead Browse to your MyDocuments
> folder and pick a filename.
>
> Once inside change the backup locations to something that exists on
> the new machine. Set up a plan to back up periodically to a USB
> flash drive in case your hard drive were to fail in the future.
>
>
>