Vista - Backup / restore issues

Like a good lad, I set Vista Home Premium to make regular backup runs
weekly to a partition on my hard drive under letter Z .....

My motherboard died and I had to swap it out for another - but the HDD
was fine.

Having reinstalled Vista on C: I went to restore my mail from the
backup and on each occasion I get the error message that

"the disc containing the backup is not accessible. Please make sure it
is turned on and accessible."

Well, it certainly is turned on and accessible - I can go into each
file individually (zipped) and locate the relevant files - but if I try
and manually restore them, Outlook will not recognise them - so I
assume that there is some sort of clever function taking place that I
don't know about.

Can anybody assist me please?

Regards

Mick

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If the hard drive was fine, why did you restore vista on the drive? Outlook
has a forum that you should visit for help. Try opening OL and choosing File,
Open Outlook Data File on the menu to see if OL can find your missing file.

"Mick" wrote:

> Like a good lad, I set Vista Home Premium to make regular backup runs
> weekly to a partition on my hard drive under letter Z .....
>
> My motherboard died and I had to swap it out for another - but the HDD
> was fine.
>
> Having reinstalled Vista on C: I went to restore my mail from the
> backup and on each occasion I get the error message that
>
> "the disc containing the backup is not accessible. Please make sure it
> is turned on and accessible."
>
> Well, it certainly is turned on and accessible - I can go into each
> file individually (zipped) and locate the relevant files - but if I try
> and manually restore them, Outlook will not recognise them - so I
> assume that there is some sort of clever function taking place that I
> don't know about.
>
> Can anybody assist me please?
>
> Regards
>
> Mick
>
> --
>
>

Mary wrote:

> If the hard drive was fine, why did you restore vista on the drive?
> Outlook has a forum that you should visit for help. Try opening OL
> and choosing File, Open Outlook Data File on the menu to see if OL
> can find your missing file.
>
> "Mick" wrote:
>
> > Like a good lad, I set Vista Home Premium to make regular backup
> > runs weekly to a partition on my hard drive under letter Z .....
> >
> > My motherboard died and I had to swap it out for another - but the
> > HDD was fine.
> >
> > Having reinstalled Vista on C: I went to restore my mail from the
> > backup and on each occasion I get the error message that
> >
> > "the disc containing the backup is not accessible. Please make sure
> > it is turned on and accessible."
> >
> > Well, it certainly is turned on and accessible - I can go into each
> > file individually (zipped) and locate the relevant files - but if I
> > try and manually restore them, Outlook will not recognise them - so
> > I assume that there is some sort of clever function taking place
> > that I don't know about.
> >
> > Can anybody assist me please?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Mick
> >
> > --
> >
> >

I wasn't given an option other than to put a fresh install of Vista
onto the machine - new motherboard - drive would not boot. All my old
files were then put into a folder - 'windows old' by the install
routine - but like a plonk, I deleted the 'users' file with my original
mail .pst in ... no problem I thought .... they are backed up.

It's not an OL issue, it's a restore issue - but I'll post in the OL
forum to see if anybody can assist.

Mick

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How are you trying to restore them? Vista file backup backs up files in
zipped format and any "unzip" program should give you accesss to the files.


"Mary" <Mary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BD40F908-BFF6-4AC4-A5F2-751FDA65AE87@microsoft.com...
> If the hard drive was fine, why did you restore vista on the drive?
> Outlook
> has a forum that you should visit for help. Try opening OL and choosing
> File,
> Open Outlook Data File on the menu to see if OL can find your missing
> file.
>
> "Mick" wrote:
>
>> Like a good lad, I set Vista Home Premium to make regular backup runs
>> weekly to a partition on my hard drive under letter Z .....
>>
>> My motherboard died and I had to swap it out for another - but the HDD
>> was fine.
>>
>> Having reinstalled Vista on C: I went to restore my mail from the
>> backup and on each occasion I get the error message that
>>
>> "the disc containing the backup is not accessible. Please make sure it
>> is turned on and accessible."
>>
>> Well, it certainly is turned on and accessible - I can go into each
>> file individually (zipped) and locate the relevant files - but if I try
>> and manually restore them, Outlook will not recognise them - so I
>> assume that there is some sort of clever function taking place that I
>> don't know about.
>>
>> Can anybody assist me please?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Mick
>>
>> --
>>
>>

AJR wrote:

> How are you trying to restore them? Vista file backup backs up files
> in zipped format and any "unzip" program should give you accesss to
> the files.
>
>
> "Mary" <Mary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BD40F908-BFF6-4AC4-A5F2-751FDA65AE87@microsoft.com...
> > If the hard drive was fine, why did you restore vista on the drive?
> > Outlook has a forum that you should visit for help. Try opening OL
> > and choosing File, Open Outlook Data File on the menu to see if OL
> > can find your missing file.
> >
> > "Mick" wrote:
> >
> > > Like a good lad, I set Vista Home Premium to make regular backup
> > > runs weekly to a partition on my hard drive under letter Z .....
> > >
> > > My motherboard died and I had to swap it out for another - but
> > > the HDD was fine.
> > >
> > > Having reinstalled Vista on C: I went to restore my mail from the
> > > backup and on each occasion I get the error message that
> > >
> > > "the disc containing the backup is not accessible. Please make
> > > sure it is turned on and accessible."
> > >
> > > Well, it certainly is turned on and accessible - I can go into
> > > each file individually (zipped) and locate the relevant files -
> > > but if I try and manually restore them, Outlook will not
> > > recognise them - so I assume that there is some sort of clever
> > > function taking place that I don't know about.
> > >
> > > Can anybody assist me please?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Mick
> > >
> > > --
> > >

They are stored (backed up) as zipped files.
I can get access manually - and unzip them. I can physically place them
in the correct location for Outlook - but the program reports them as
not be the correct type of file.

I have a feeling that this is because the files have become associated
with Outlook - and I was wondering if they should be associated with
something else ....

or of course it may be because Microsoft backup has corrupted them all
...... wouldn't be the first time I have had 'issues' with MS backup
routines.

On the other hand, the Vista restore program is telling me that the
disc that the backups are on is not accessible - tells me to make sure
the drive is powered up and connected ! It certainly is ... and as
stated, I can enter the drive and recover the files ..... which is what
makes me thing that Vista backup has corrupted something somewhere
making the files as much use as an ashtray on a motorcycle.

......can some kind sole please locate their Outlook .pst files and just
take a peek to see what they are associated with and let me know ... ?
I'd be very grateful.

After that I'll go away and accept that I have lost all that data that
I thought was safe!

Thanks

Mick



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