my XP ate my 2002 Outlook profile

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My XP has been unstable recently since I copied an older drive to a larger new drive (woke up some viruses such as Win32.Nimda, Win32.Magitr, I-Worm.Hybris, I-Worm.Prettypark and Iframe.vulnerability) and I have had symtoms such as:

1. major C: drive always shows same size (37.2M) even though I deleted Megs of old files and programs
2. repeated get low disk space messages

I ran Bulldog virus checker and the most it found was 2 suspect files which it quarantined; I also ran an online virus checker which found nothing; and I ran Spychecker which found nothing.

Most recently I opened up MS Outlook 2002 and it has lost all the profiles (really just mine, the only user of the computer).

Can anyone help me find my old profile or suggest any solutions to the above tale of woeful instability?

Dan
 
Well as far as that lost profile.....? Try to preform a system recovery to an earlier date to before you "awoke" the viruses. (start/all programs/assesories/systemtools/systemrestore/restore to an earlier date) If not possible or dosn't work....
Do you still have the older smaller drive??? Is all your info still on it ??? Outlook has severaly features to extract and import/export folders and things like that. You may want to hook the smaller drive up as a slave and import from it. Or try to burn the needed images to a cd and transfer. Your not lost yet as long as the profile exists some where.

But in my opinion-- 1 virus is 1 too many. And you just named 5! Back up important data, R/R (remove/reinstall) the OS.

Don't want to do any of that ??? Then wait for another responce or check the sponcers -------------------------------------------------------------->>
 
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thanks for the advice - system restore

I have tried the system restore option. However while it shows a number of days prior to today in May non of the bolded blue dates are responsive and I cannot go back to April which is when things were stable. Any suggestions?

[BTW, the small drive that I copied over had some old files on it, nothing too important and while I still have the old drive I do not really want anything from it and it is very very old (like 6 years) and was only 4M in size and my new second drive is 80M and costs a lot less than the old 4 banger].
 
Bite the bullet, grit your teeth and swear loudly, 'cos you aint gonna get it back (but your more than welcome to prove me wrong) ... then 'clean' re-install Windows.

:(


If you have the Outlook "profiles" on the Old drive, you may be able to use them ... but I stongly recommend doing a clean install of Windows on the new HD first.
 
Ohh I see, i thought you had moved the Outlook account over from the small hard drive to the new one bigger one. I hate to say this but umm... I think its gone for good... sorry(that why I use web based email accounts like yahoo and stuff. Info is saved on server safe from viruses)
 
Dear NPRO

Just a thought....I use Outlook and my ISP is PIPEX so I can always access my emails via the web. Example - even when I've deleted something from Outlook by mistake, can retrieve via the web.

Any good to you to restore to where you were?

Gabriella x
 
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