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Old 01-16-2009   #1 (permalink)
Dave Lee


 
 

WLM email Restore via Vista (Home Premium)

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 using 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



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Old 01-16-2009   #2 (permalink)
Dave Lee


 
 

Re: WLM email Restore via Vista (Home Premium)

My apologies - advanced restore is the answer.

dave

"Dave Lee" <DaveLeeNC@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> 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 using
> 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
>
>
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