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Okay thought I would ask in here as I am a little stumped.
I have XP Pro on my home machine and I was running out of space on my C drive and decided to go the whole hog and upgrade to a pair of 300GB SATA jobbies. I used Norton Ghost 2003 to backup my C and D partitions, both on one physical drive, and restore the ghost to a couple of partitions on one of the new drives. Very impressed I was when this worked first time as planned
My problem is that when I went into Outlook Express for the first time all of the mails from my main identity, I have two, were missing??? I have checked the dbx files and they are huge still, inbox at 200MB thereabouts. The other identity has a sum total of 3 emails in it which display properly as expected, typical that it has lost the main identity mails and not the 3 mails from the other
The email storage folder wasn't even on one of the changed disks, it was on my data disk which I left unchanged. I have tried to import the mails back in by copying the storage folder but nothing at all.
Anyone got any ideas?
Mark
I have XP Pro on my home machine and I was running out of space on my C drive and decided to go the whole hog and upgrade to a pair of 300GB SATA jobbies. I used Norton Ghost 2003 to backup my C and D partitions, both on one physical drive, and restore the ghost to a couple of partitions on one of the new drives. Very impressed I was when this worked first time as planned
My problem is that when I went into Outlook Express for the first time all of the mails from my main identity, I have two, were missing??? I have checked the dbx files and they are huge still, inbox at 200MB thereabouts. The other identity has a sum total of 3 emails in it which display properly as expected, typical that it has lost the main identity mails and not the 3 mails from the other
The email storage folder wasn't even on one of the changed disks, it was on my data disk which I left unchanged. I have tried to import the mails back in by copying the storage folder but nothing at all.
Anyone got any ideas?
Mark
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I think you have to create the same folders in your clean version of OE and then put a dummy email in to activate it. Then you can copy your old messages in from your backup.
I lost my administrator account on Saturday and this was the only way I could restore my messages after that particular calamity.
I lost my administrator account on Saturday and this was the only way I could restore my messages after that particular calamity.
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Well I have found a possible solution for this, although I will have to wait until I get home to try it out.
Apparently McAfee Virusscan can cause a corruption in the DBX file, although why this should only occur when I ghost the drive is beyond me, there is a tool called DBXtract which can extract the corrupted mails. I'm hoping this can sort out the problems of a very smooth ghosting.
If it works I will let you know.
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Apparently McAfee Virusscan can cause a corruption in the DBX file, although why this should only occur when I ghost the drive is beyond me, there is a tool called DBXtract which can extract the corrupted mails. I'm hoping this can sort out the problems of a very smooth ghosting.
If it works I will let you know.
Mark
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Yep, Figment it is definitely pointing in the right direction as I already store this on my data drive. Used to be to save space on my C drive but not really an issue now.
XRS I will give that a go is the DBXtract program doesn't do it's stuff.
Thanks,
Mark
XRS I will give that a go is the DBXtract program doesn't do it's stuff.
Thanks,
Mark
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