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Yet another disaster!

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Went to PC wednesday evening and couldn't get outlook to work. Tried everything, so decided to do a system restore to 2 days previous.

PC wouldn't turn back on :cussing:

Ended up having to delete hard drive etc and start from scratch. Took be the best part of nearly 2 days to get back to normal :cb

Thank god for my network hard drive back up :thumbleft:
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Wanna buy my clockwork one or the armstrad 64 :lol:
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Dave,
Did you get any error message when Outlook would not open?

When you say it would not start, did it get pert way to booting and show an error, or would it not even give a flicker.

As you are back up and running, run a scan with your antivirus and antispyware once you have updated them.
Then set a new system restore point.

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Outlook kept saying it had to close, that was all. When it wouldn't boot, it was literally that, once bios had run I was just left with a black blank screen.

All my anti-virus and malware have been re-installed and updated to the latest.

Thinking back, my pc had been running slow for the past couple of weeks, especially when opening programs, it took forever to open them.

With a new win 7 64 bit re-installed on a clean hard drive it appears to be back to normal.
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gas4you wrote:
Thank god for my network hard drive back up :thumbleft:

I'm amazed! :shock: You must be the one and only person I've ever heard of who has a SAFE backup policy! :lol:

How often do you hear "I've lost all my files.... :angryfire: "

:lol:
Don't take it personally......
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kellys_eye wrote:

I'm amazed! You must be the one and only person I've ever heard of who has a SAFE backup policy! :lol:

:lol:
Please Sir, Please Sir, Me too! :salute:

One external HD backed up to once a week and computer No.2 has a copy of all files, folders, pictures and videos on it which are updated to it every two weeks.

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I actually run most of my computer as a slave to the remote hard drive.

Most of my progs are on the hard drive and I open them from there.

Still got loads of stuff on the laptop, I'd like to move over given a quite moment.
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kellys_eye wrote:
gas4you wrote:
Thank god for my network hard drive back up :thumbleft:

I'm amazed! :shock: You must be the one and only person I've ever heard of who has a SAFE backup policy! :lol:

How often do you hear "I've lost all my files.... :angryfire: "

:lol:
Only because I've been caught out too often before ::b

I have all the computers in the house automatically backing up to this network HD. Great for the step kids homework, college work and projects etc.

Have you ever known a teenager to listen about doing back ups :roll:
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I run a second HDD in my PC entirely for data however I've had THREE HDD failures in recent times.

Can you recommend a particular HDD manufacturer for reliability? When I bought HDDs 10 years ago they worked - non-stop, no failures, no problems. These days they come with a 2 year warranty and that's about as long as they actually work for! Built-in time-to-failure I reckon.

I'm now resorting to USB datakeys for critical backup - unless you have a better method?
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I bought an "Integral" case from PCWorld for out 30quid and fitted my own hard drive in it, no idea what the make is though.

Just plugged in a USB port and away it went, use drive F or E depending if the printers on first. where was I, open it up with windows explorer.

Maplins have some good deal on at the moment, and was thinking of getting another one to back up as a second back-up for just the important stuff.
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I have a Medion Ext HD from Aldi about four or five years ago. 250GB capacity and I find it plenty large enough for incremental backups of all data.
It is run about twice a week for backups and other things and is still as sweet as a nut and quiet when running.
What I do, when I run it, is to leave it on all day until I shut down the PCs at night so it is not run up and shut down before it gets up to temperature.

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Can you recommend a particular HDD manufacturer for reliability?
Western Digital build good solid hard drives with 3 year warranty as standard. Seagate are also quite good and give a 5 year warranty.
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Going back to this and my 'perfect backup' :shock:

Where does outlook store all your e-mails?

My e-mails appear to be the only items that are not being backed up ::b
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I dumped Outlook as it is more trouble than it is worth. I use my Yahoo mailbox(s) only now as you never lose anything that way and you can get in from anywhere in the world. It also can be made to look like an Outlook screen using the customising.

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Dave,

Outlook stores the mail boxes in one *.PST file (usually outlook.pst).
Typical directory: C:\WINDOWS\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

I dont use Outlook because I don't have Office, so cannot check this out but this may help you extract them once you find where they are on the backup:

http://support.gfi.com/manuals/en/mar2/ ... -1-23.html

This may be of help now that you are up and running again:
How to manage .pst files in Outlook


I would recommend you give Thunderbird a try.
Set it up use the settings that you have used to setup Outlook. You can import your contact list.

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