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Barbee

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My harddrive had to be replaced. The Geek Squad did it. I paid $99. for them to copy all my data.

The disk they gave me contains all my Internet favorites. When I click on them they say they are invalid. Any way to get these to work?

Also they copied my Windows mail contacts... how do I get these into the mail program.

What a job this is, getting things back to normal.
 

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$99 seems rather a lot for a simple process.

For this Im going to assume your using Internet Explorer and Windows Mail since you didnt specify what you were using.

Favorites:

1. Open IE
2. press alt button to get the menu down and goto Filemenu and then Import and Export
3. In the screen that appears select Import from a file and then click next
4. In this screen select favorites and next
5. Now navigate to where your favorites file is stored on your backup and then click next
6. IE will now import the favorites and they should appear in your list of favorites

Windows Mail:

1. Open Windows Mail
2. Click on File menu then go to Import - Windows Contacts
3. You now have several file formats to choose from. Have a look on the backup to see what format they are and then choose the one from the list
4. Windows Mail will now ask for the location of the file, so browse to it, select it then click next and it should start importing the contacts.

Hope this helps.
 

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Thankl you. Favorites worked... but somehow I lost the contacts... it is so hard redoing everything. I had everything just the way I wanted it and then the hard drive went. Luckily it was still on warranty. Not only was $99 outrageous they wouldn't work on the computer until I paid it. Now I'm trying to work with the stuff they copied and 1/2 of it doesn't even work!

I remember having my computer so there was a double screen and I could just highlight something and a window would pop up with options like copy to and you picked a folder. That is gone! The Administrator crap is back too. This is my last HP computer.
 

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how did they back up the contacts? As one file or a folder of files?
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self built
    CPU
    Intel E8400 3GHz
    Motherboard
    Intel DX48BT2
    Memory
    Kingston PC3-10666 4Gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX 9800 GTX XXX
    Sound Card
    Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2x Samsung SM-T220HD 22"
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 on two monitors
    Hard Drives
    WD Raptor X/150Gb in RAID0
    WD Raptor 36gb
    3x Samsung F1 1Tb
    PSU
    Thermaltake ToughPower 850w
    Case
    Thermaltake Armor
    Cooling
    Tuniq Tower 120
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    Dell Multimedia Enhanced USB
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    Razer Diamondback 3G
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    8128/832
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One folder and when I opened it all the contacts were there. I was confused when I was trying to copy to my new harddrive and actually was putting it back where it came from... then today it was just gone.
 

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do the files have .contact extensions?
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self built
    CPU
    Intel E8400 3GHz
    Motherboard
    Intel DX48BT2
    Memory
    Kingston PC3-10666 4Gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX 9800 GTX XXX
    Sound Card
    Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2x Samsung SM-T220HD 22"
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 on two monitors
    Hard Drives
    WD Raptor X/150Gb in RAID0
    WD Raptor 36gb
    3x Samsung F1 1Tb
    PSU
    Thermaltake ToughPower 850w
    Case
    Thermaltake Armor
    Cooling
    Tuniq Tower 120
    Keyboard
    Dell Multimedia Enhanced USB
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    Razer Diamondback 3G
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    8128/832
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    Thermaltake Muse esata caddy
I thought you had success with the favorites? Try copying the files in contacts folder on backup to c:\users\<account name>\contacts
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self built
    CPU
    Intel E8400 3GHz
    Motherboard
    Intel DX48BT2
    Memory
    Kingston PC3-10666 4Gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX 9800 GTX XXX
    Sound Card
    Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2x Samsung SM-T220HD 22"
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 on two monitors
    Hard Drives
    WD Raptor X/150Gb in RAID0
    WD Raptor 36gb
    3x Samsung F1 1Tb
    PSU
    Thermaltake ToughPower 850w
    Case
    Thermaltake Armor
    Cooling
    Tuniq Tower 120
    Keyboard
    Dell Multimedia Enhanced USB
    Mouse
    Razer Diamondback 3G
    Internet Speed
    8128/832
    Other Info
    Thermaltake Muse esata caddy
By success I meant that they went in... but when I tried to use one nothing happened. What a shame because I have years of genealogy links. I'll try what you suggested when I get home. I'm at work now. I'll let you know.
 

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