XP REPAIR CREAMED MY DATA

[Andrew]

XP repaired did in fact repair my xp

just before completion it asked for my office xp cd in
order to access a file "pro.msi" When I put my office
disk in it could not find the file. A seach of that cd
and the windows xp cd revealed no such file. I cancelled
that step and repair finished.

THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT IT SEEMS TO HAVE OVERWRITTEN ALL
MY OUTLOOK AND MONEY 2002 data!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HEEEELP!!!

 

[snarge]

Didya ever hear of BACKUP?????????????????????????????
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[Guest]

system restore, or re-install it properly.

 

[Guest]

that doesn't restore data!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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system restore, or re-install it properly.


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[Johnny Lingo]

XP repaired did in fact repair my xp

just before completion it asked for my office xp cd in
order to access a file "pro.msi" When I put my office
disk in it could not find the file. A seach of that cd
and the windows xp cd revealed no such file. I cancelled
that step and repair finished.

THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT IT SEEMS TO HAVE OVERWRITTEN ALL
MY OUTLOOK AND MONEY 2002 data!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HEEEELP!!!

Pull out your backup disk with all of your data on it (which I am sure you
have been doing on a regular basis), and import it back into the program.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Didya ever hear of BACKUP?????????????????????????????
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[Mario]

Hi Andrew,

Dont panic! Panic is the enemy number one of data recovery.
Most important is not to try anything. Please dont start "what if I do this
and that?".
Data is not lost yet, but it may be if you do many wrong tries to recovery
it.

Stop, and think what are your options.
Do you have backups? None? One year old? Paper printings that can be scanned
or typed?
What exactly was lost? Can most be restored manually or not?
How import is your data? How much money you are ready to pay for recovery
services?

My advice depends on that variables.

If your data is critical, valuable, and there is no other way to restore it,
just power off your computer and contact professional data recovery
services. Data recovery labs can do miracles even on data rewritten several
times, laptops dropped on swimming pools, and worst, burned on fires and
under severe damage. Such recovery is never 100% guaranteed but the chances
are very good for the scenario you describe. Recovery may take some time,
but there are express and priority services. Professional services are
expensive to recovery less important data.

If your data was important to you and you dont have a backup, but it was
just ordinary stuff, some emails you can live without; some financial data
that may take a while to input again, but is not going to shut down your
business, then you may consider the data lost. Only if you can afford to
consider the data lost you can start to make any amateur attempts to
recovery. Do-it-yourself data recovery software sometimes fail and destroy
completly the last chances for a data recovery lab. But that's ok if you
think that the data is already lost and you dont want to pay expensive
services.

Any way, if I was you, my main concern would be "how can I prevent this from
happening again?", not "how am I gona get these files?". This may be an hard
lesson to start making backups.

Data recovery services (just to name a few, known):
http://www.ontrack.com/
http://www.drivesavers.com/
http://www.cbltech.com/
http://www.dataleach.com/

Data recovery software (not freeware, and do it at your own risk):
http://www.r-tt.com/
(see software under data recovery services web sites)

Best regards,
Mario

 

[Guest]

It is actually for a client. Sorry you life is so
pathetic that you have the time and desire to make such
ridiculously puerile comments.

 

[Guest]

Really? Great idea Mr. too scared to leave an email
address

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Really? Great idea Mr. too scared to leave an email
address

Only idiots, people who actually LIKE spam and viruses in their inbox,
and the uniformed use their real email addresses when posting to
newsgroups. And look who's talking, Mr./Ms. Anonymous.

Steve

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

You attempt a repair without first backing up important data....
then you purposefully bypass a step in the process...
and now you come here seeking help and sympathy?

Bobby

 

[Bob Harris]

Do you mean that the files are there, but contain random garbage, or that
the files are not there, and thus appear to have been erased? If the first,
I can only give you my sympathy. If the latter, I suggest that the files
might really still be on the disk, but that one of two things happended (1)
the directory entires got over-written, (2) the user ID has changed, and you
can not "see" the files, because you do not own them. For case (1), get
some file recovery software and pray. For case (2), log in as the PC
administrator and try to locate files for some other user. If you find
them, then take ownership of the files.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

 

[Johnny Lingo]

Only idiots, people who actually LIKE spam and viruses in their inbox,
and the uniformed use their real email addresses when posting to
newsgroups. And look who's talking, Mr./Ms. Anonymous.

Steve

EXACTLY! I would never leave my email address here! I get enough spam as
it is without asking for it by posting it here. And who is "Anonymous" to
say anything.

 

[Johnny Lingo]

Before you start preaching about email addresses, you should look at who you
are on this post. I would never post an email address here, as I don't want
the spam.
As for your problem, it sucks to lose data, but the computer world is FULL
of arning about backing up your data! There is an entire segment of the IT
world that is dedicated to backing up data. If you lost your data, it is
your fault for not having it backed up. I have way too many experiences as
a technician that people try to make it my problem that THEY lost THEIR
data. Even if you backup your data bi-weekly or weekly, the most you would
have lost would have only been since that last backup (bi-weekly would be a
max of 2 weeks).