I have a client with a Win95 PC that had multiple failures, apparantly modem and/or serial port related. They bought a new PC with WinXP home and new versions of the apps: Office & Money. While the old PC was working, they made data backups (from within “Money” and another non-MS application) to floppy disks (which show up as *.bak files). After the current version of the apps were installed on the new box, we tried to restore the old data and both restores failed with a “cyclic redundancy check” error. The hard drive in the old PC has already been formatted, attempting to fix its problems (before the decision to replace it was made). Is there anything else we should try before the “we’ve tried everything, but no success” discussion? Is it possible that all four floppies or the drive in the old PC were bad? I was unable to find anything that applied in the MS kb. I found some discussion of differences between MSBackup and NTBackup, but it didn’t make any sense to me. Thanks for any insight you can offer…
