Thanks for your help.

Recovering Turbo Tax files
#1
Posted 05 May 2011 - 07:11 AM

Thanks for your help.
#2
Posted 05 May 2011 - 07:54 AM

I found this but I cannot vouch for it.
Note sure I would worry about that, unless you mean next year, when TT pulls in previous year's data? Unlessit will be very tedious to input all the data back into Turbo Tax.




You have a copy of your returns, and I assume you kept the source documents (copies of W-2, 1098s, 1099s, donation receipts, etc.) so in terms of being audited, they have a copy of your return. In terms of putting it all in next year - yeah, that would be a pain. I wish I had more to offer. Perhaps someone else reading might. But frankly - sadly - the fact Windows and TT can find your file, but TT reports it is corrupted, that's a bad sign.

#3
Posted 05 May 2011 - 08:11 AM

The problem as I see it is that there are backup files on the WD drive created by Norton, however, I do not wish to restore an entire file backup as I am afraid it will reinstall the problem which caused me to reintall Vista in the first place
What if you fired up a virtual machine like virtualbox and restore your norton backup to this get your files off. Then delete the virtual machine.
#4
Posted 05 May 2011 - 08:54 AM

I am surprised Norton does not allow you to recover individual files. In fact, it would not make sense it doesn't. There is the issue where it might reinstall the problem, but if it overwrote the whole disk, like an image backup, it would overwrite all changed and new files since the backup.
If it is an image backup, then I agree with gorham's excellent suggestion of a VM.
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