Data Restore Question (Vista Home Premium)

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Dave Lee

I recently encountered a harddrive problem on my Dell laptop. Dell sent me a
new drive (with factory image). At that point my system was marginally
stable but I had a full image backup (using Acronis) that was only 4 days
old. The only personal data that I cared about that was not covered by that
backup was some email, and I was able to do a Vista Backup of only my email
(at that point Acronis was complaining mightily about a multitude of bad
sectors, etc). I then installed the new drive and reloaded it with Acronis.
That restored my system to pretty much the identical state that it was in on
1/13.

When I went to restore my email files, Vista backup only acknowledges that
last Vista backup that I had done (1/5/09) before I did the full image save
via Acronis. Even though I can see the files in my backup drive (USB-2
harddrive) I am not able to Restore them.

My email store is pretty big - is there a way to get a couple days worth of
email files back (Windows Live Mail)?

Thanks.

dave
 
Dave Lee said:
I recently encountered a harddrive problem on my Dell laptop. Dell sent me
a new drive (with factory image). At that point my system was marginally
stable but I had a full image backup (using Acronis) that was only 4 days
old. The only personal data that I cared about that was not covered by
that backup was some email, and I was able to do a Vista Backup of only my
email (at that point Acronis was complaining mightily about a multitude of
bad sectors, etc). I then installed the new drive and reloaded it with
Acronis. That restored my system to pretty much the identical state that
it was in on 1/13.

When I went to restore my email files, Vista backup only acknowledges that
last Vista backup that I had done (1/5/09) before I did the full image
save via Acronis. Even though I can see the files in my backup drive
(USB-2 harddrive) I am not able to Restore them.

My email store is pretty big - is there a way to get a couple days worth
of email files back (Windows Live Mail)?

Thanks.

dave

Sorry - looks like Advanced Restore is the answer here.

dave
 
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