Restore files

[Dian Liang]

Hi

A user had accidently overwritten a current *.pst file
with new *.pst file. There is no backup for the current
*.pst file. Is there an Windows in built tools that
allows me to undo this action or do some of restore?

I heard abt some inbuilt restore tool, can you point me
to that?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Dave Patrick]

Since it was overwritten there is almost no chance but stop using it
immediately and send it off to one of the drive recovery services.

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:
| Hi
|
| A user had accidently overwritten a current *.pst file
| with new *.pst file. There is no backup for the current
| *.pst file. Is there an Windows in built tools that
| allows me to undo this action or do some of restore?
|
| I heard abt some inbuilt restore tool, can you point me
| to that?
|
| Thanks in advance!
|

 

[Eric McG]

Windows 2000 does not have a restore feature like WinMe and WinXP have. It does
have a feature called "Restore Last Known Good Configuration", which I believe
only restores a previous version of the Registry.

One long shot...if the user activated the archive feature in MS Outlook, there
should be some historical info found in its pst file. Look for a file called
archive.pst.

Otherwise, chalk it up to lessons learned.

For future safety, install the free MS backup utility for Outlook. See this link
for details:

This only works for versions of Outlook 2000 and later.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01&displaylang=en

 

[Guo Cheng]

Hmmm..I do not quite understand send it off to one of the
drive recovery services...Can elaborate?

 

[Dave Patrick]

One of these.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q="drive+recovery"&btnG=Google+Search

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| Hmmm..I do not quite understand send it off to one of the
| drive recovery services...Can elaborate?