Vista - Boot Failure (with mouse cursor visible) after System Restore

12-26-2006

Thanks for everyone's help. I was able to save everything to my USB drive and
I just reinstalled XP. I'll wait to attack Vista later. Thanks again for all
the help.

"John Barnes" wrote:

> I should add that I have had to reinstall Vista 3-4 times due to software
> installations that went awry. Hope RTM has that fixed since that will be a
> huge number of angry customers, most of whom will have to start from the
> system recovery disk and may have to reupgrade from XP to Vista again.
>
>
> "MichaelMcGaha" <MichaelMcGaha@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B2DE1995-1970-4170-8278-2ACE8A5631C4@microsoft.com...
> >I have successfully pulled up the command prompt and connected my external
> > drive and I'm copying all my user data over. The only thing I'm not sure
> > about is my outlook files. Does anyone know where I would find my files
> > containing my emails? I've not messed with the files on Vista. I assume
> > that
> > it will still be in a .pst file? I'm using Outlook 2003.
>
>

12-26-2006	#11 (permalink)
MichaelMcGaha n/a posts	Re: Boot Failure (with mouse cursor visible) after System Restore Thanks for everyone's help. I was able to save everything to my USB drive and I just reinstalled XP. I'll wait to attack Vista later. Thanks again for all the help. "John Barnes" wrote: > I should add that I have had to reinstall Vista 3-4 times due to software > installations that went awry. Hope RTM has that fixed since that will be a > huge number of angry customers, most of whom will have to start from the > system recovery disk and may have to reupgrade from XP to Vista again. > > > "MichaelMcGaha" <MichaelMcGaha@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:B2DE1995-1970-4170-8278-2ACE8A5631C4@microsoft.com... > >I have successfully pulled up the command prompt and connected my external > > drive and I'm copying all my user data over. The only thing I'm not sure > > about is my outlook files. Does anyone know where I would find my files > > containing my emails? I've not messed with the files on Vista. I assume > > that > > it will still be in a .pst file? I'm using Outlook 2003. > >
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