Well, I have tried a fresh drive with a fresh XP install and then installing Office 2000. Outlook works with the exception of no address book. If I try to use Word, the system locks up with the usual (Microsoft Word had crashed. Do you want to tell Microsoft about the problem?). Now, uninstalling Office2000 and installing OfficeXP, then word works, but Outlook crashes.
I have attempted to find the *.pab file, in backups and under the old Administrator account files. When I re-installed XP, there was no account listed in the Welcome screen for the Admin. XP created a new account with my Name with admin privileges. I have transferred all of the files from the old admin account to the new Mark account, but doesn't make any difference. One other thing I noted. In my previous install, I never had a Welcome, log-in screen, nor did I have to enter a password. I never asked XP to set up a password, so I just hit enter. I also tried a sector to sector copy from Norton Ghost 15 and that didn't work either. It was to a new, fresh formatted drive. I should note that I have 42 restore points within my Retro Express 2.0 backup program. I have gone back to restore points before the system MB failure. Can't make them work either. Prior to the event, I was running backups twice a week. What is Open Office? I am just about to give up, which of course will not let me access the huge number of document files for my business (Single-Man) and no outlook. Or, have limited Outlook (No contacts which had about 75 business informational email addresses and have the Word program not working. I have been fighting this for over a week now and not generating any income for bills. It is tough to create income if you can't initiate email contacts. Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Donk Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:58 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech] Outlook Woes... When you tried copying the .pab files what happened when you tried to open the address book in Outlook? Did you just get an empty address book, or did you get an error message? Is it possible your backed up .pab file is corrupted? Does it's properties show that it has any size (not 0kb)? I just don't understand if the file worked with the same version of Outlook, why it shouldn't still work. Are you sure you're copying it to the right folder? Sorry I can't be more help... those are just things I would double check. If all else fails there might be a work-around you could try. If you have MS Word, or Excel, (or maybe Open Office will do it too) you can try opening the .pab file in Word or Excel. Then save it as a CSV file (that's a generic text delimited format). And I think that Outlook will have an option to import the CSV file under the File menu, Import/Export option. Sometimes the results of doing this aren't perfect,and you'll have to do a little editing to get it right, but it would be better than nothing. About your backup problem... I keep 2 types of backup: 1. A "disk-image" type backup that will completely restore the entire computer to the way it was the day that the last backup was made. This is great for a bad virus infection, or dead hard drive, where you have to reformat or replace the hard drive. It's not unusual for this to fail with a new mobo, since upon first boot the OS is searching for LOTS of hardware it has drivers for, but is finding LOTS of different hardware, heh. It will usually choke when this happens and fail. Sometimes, it is possible to boot into Safe Mode, uninstall the old drivers, and then install the new drivers and get it to work. 2. The 2nd type of backup is mainly for data. Create a backup set of your important data with a backup program (I use Syncback). So no matter what happens to your PC mobo, etc., you'll always have your data. It sounds like you did this, which is good (except for that darned pab file). Also, if possible, tell the backup program to NOT compress or otherwise alter your data. Just make a simple file-for-file copy of your data. That way, your data will always be accessible from any PC without using any program - and much less risk of any corruption caused by compressing or bundling the files. Hope you get your address book back. Donk On 9/29/2011 10:40 AM, Absolute Sound Labs (Grps) wrote: > Hi Donk... > > I did restore the *.pst file and the *.rwl file. The *.pst file brought back > all of my emails from current to archive and the *.wrl file restored my > rules. I have also tried coping the older file from my 2 day old backup. It > didn't make any difference. > > I have a Que Office 2000 text, which I tried their method without any > results. "I hate Computers!". So far I have about 4 days tied up in trying > to restore the data. > > One thing that the vendors of backup software never tell you is that if your > forced to replace a MB, then the backup will not work due to a hardware > change. I did double backups, two different programs, twice weekly. 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