DON'T UPGRADE XP PRO TO BETA 2 - YOU WILL LOSE YOUR OUTLOOK BACKUP

[Guest]

:

And Vista has to be

running in order to perform the backup considering it's necessary for the
program in question (Outlook 2003) to be usable.

I'm sure the word BACKUP appears in a statement about doing it BEFORE you
install Vista.

You obviously don't work in Computers/IT or you would know this...

As for your cancer remark, I think it is disgusting of you to use such a
statement to justify your comments. I'm sure that virtually everyone on here
has had some family or very close friend with cancer.

IT IS A VERY CHEAP SHOT at sympathy for being a COMPLETE IDIOT.

Sorry, but someone had to say it.

 

[Guest]

And Vista has to be running in order to perform the backup considering it's >necessary for the program in question (Outlook 2003) to be usable.

Sorry, but I have to have a REAL BIG RANT about this.

1 : I think that you comment about your cancer, is a disgusting attempt to
extort sympathy. I am sure that virtually everyone on here has/had someone
close with cancer. I have sympathy with everyone that does, but not when it
is used in this manner.

2 : Only a COMPLETE IDIOT would install a Beta product onto a productio
(mostly or only usable computer).

3 : If you actually read the instructions before it fails (your signature
says after it fails) then you would have read that it states to BACKUP BEFORE
you install Vista.

4 : If the data is that critical, then why the hell did you want to try a
BETA product on it anyway.

2 : I think that you comment about your cancer, is a disgusting attempt to
extort sympathy. I am sure that virtually everyone on here has/had someone
close with cancer

 

[Guest]

And Vista has to be running in order to perform the backup considering it's >necessary for the program in question (Outlook 2003) to be usable.

Sorry, but I have to have a REAL BIG RANT about this.

1 : I think that you comment about your cancer, is a disgusting attempt to
extort sympathy. I am sure that virtually everyone on here has/had someone
close with cancer. I have sympathy with everyone that does, but not when it
is used in this manner.

2 : Only a COMPLETE IDIOT would install a Beta product onto a productio
(mostly or only usable computer).

3 : If you actually read the instructions before it fails (your signature
says after it fails) then you would have read that it states to BACKUP BEFORE
you install Vista.

4 : If the data is that critical, then why the hell did you want to try a
BETA product on it anyway.

2 : I think that you comment about your cancer, is a disgusting attempt to
extort sympathy. I am sure that virtually everyone on here has/had someone
close with cancer

 

[Joe727]

Uh - you are responding to my post and I said nothing about cancer. You
must be referring to the Original Poster. Please respond to the appropriate
post.

Joe

 

[Guest]

I am very sure that you could e-mail the companies to send you your product
keys again.

 

[Guest]

I'm pretty sure the product keys are written on the packaging that said
"Important! Retain For Your Records."

Guess what, buddy: you didn't back-up your stuff. If you had backed up your
stuff to DVD, how exactly do you logically point to Vista as the corruptor?
Unless, you didn't do a backup untill you started the upgrade, in which case
shame on you.

 

[Guest]

I wasn't replying to you, just adding to your comments, my post started with
"Kolohe wiz wrote"

 

[Guest]

I think there may be some truth to what Kolohe Wiz is saying. A similar
thing happened to me.

I had a test machine that I had Windows XP SP2 installed on. I partitioned
the drive and installed Vista as a dual boot. Everything was working fine.
Then I removed the drive from that machine and installed it as a secondary
(non boot) drive in my main machine just in order to get a file off of the XP
partition. I wasn't trying to do anything with the Vista partition. As it
turned out, I was unable to access either the XP or Vista partitions. My
main machine didn't even really recognize the disk was there. I gave up and
removed the disk. Upon rebooting, it said my copy of a MAPI file for Outlook
2007 was corrupted and I needed to reinstall Outlook. Remember, I was not
able to access anything on the XP/Vista disk. So just by virtue of
connecting the disk to my machine, it messed up Outlook.
Luckilly all my mail is kept on the Exchange server so that wasn't an issue
and a repair of Outlook fixed the problem. But I now agree that there may be
something to what Kolohe Wiz is saying. If it did this to Outlook just from
placing the disk in the same machine, then I would not doubt it could corrupt
the PST from doing an upgarde.
(Of course you should have made a separeate CD, DVD or external disk backup,
but that's kind of beside the point now.)

 

[Joe727]

IC

Thanks for clarifying.

Joe

I wasn't replying to you, just adding to your comments, my post started
with
"Kolohe wiz wrote"

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

So just by virtue of connecting the disk to my machine, it messed up

Outlook.

If you can't afford to lose whatever's on that drive, you don't let a beta
OS manage it--your drive is at the mercy of any bug that may be in that
code. As far as I'm concerned, it's not enough to use a different drive--if
the hardware is connected, Vista will have to manage it. That's why I won't
even consider a dual-boot scenario on an important box.

If your only backup in on a drive being handled by beta code, IMNSHO you
don't have a backup at all.

 

[Guest]

I could afford to lose the data, and I was well aware of the risks. Remeber
this is 2 completely separate drive in two completely separte boxes.
Regardless of that fact, it is still the case that simply connecting the
drive to an existing system as a secondary drive caused problems on the
primary OS which was on a different physical drive.

Perhaps the new boot loader process is something that existing XP installs
can't deal with. We can talk about proper backup all day but if physically
connecting a Vista drive to an existing XP box is going to cause corruption
that's something that needs to be pointed out or resolved.

 

[Guest]

I respectfully rescind everything I have said in this thread.
I discovered there was a power problem with the connector to the Vista drive
I was using. That is why I was unable to access the drive. Once that was
corrected, I was able to connect the drive to a different system and browse
both the XP and Vista partitions with no Outlook corruprtion or other prblems.

 

[Guest]

I am willing to take that chance - Do you have a Product Key? -PLEASE

 

[Guest]

I am willing to take that chance - Do you have a Product Key - PLEASE - only
want to use 1 time