Hi,

Thank you so much for your prompt reply - I appreciate it.

The problem that I am having is that the restore process fails when it first wants to do an upgrade of the QuickBooks program itself.  The error that it gives #12007.  

I have researched it and this points to QuickBooks not being able to access the internet for the upgrade task.  The internet connection is working.  Further reading lead me to discover that QuickBooks 2006 Pro relies on the settings as defined in *Internet Explorer* to connect to the internet.  Since IE has been deprecated, I cannot set those settings for the QuickBooks 2006 product.

What I am doing at the moment is one of two approaches:

1.  Find a third party download of IE to enable those settings, or (and I think that this my preference),

2.  Find a third party download of QuickBooks of the newer versions and migrate it up the correct upgrade path (taking into account things like the change from a file-based database in 2006 to a relational database in SQL Server in 2007, etc.)  I am just not sure where I can source these third-party downloads from (and a reputable source)?

That's where I have got to at the moment.  I would be grateful if you could share your experience with which is the best approach to this.

Thank you once again.