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Baron Munchausen · #1 June 29th, 2006, 03:08 PM

The failure to recognize the backup might be part of the malfunctions caused by the partial update. Once you DO get a working system, maybe you will be able to restore the things on that backup disk?

Daynarr · #2 June 29th, 2006, 03:13 PM

And restore whatever was causing this in the first place. I'd suggest saving as much data as you can (including those files you have no access at the moment, there is workaround for that) and making fresh install. Thunderbird is infinitelly better then Outlook Express and I switched only recently myself. If you do stay with outlook then you should know that you can change folder where you mails are saved to something far easier to trace and backup (like My Documents/My Mail folder).

Fyron · #3 June 29th, 2006, 03:28 PM

If you do go to the reinstall route, make sure to set up a separate data partition so that when Windows blows itself up in the future, you don't lose anything. Use TweakUI to remap some system folders (eg: My Documents) onto the data partition for even less worry. 6 or 7 GBs should be plenty for the Windows patition, esp. if you install large programs and games on the larger data partition.

Baron Munchausen · #4 June 29th, 2006, 04:48 PM

Well, I hope Windows isn't so braindead that you have to re-install the entire system or nothing. I would hope he can recover his data without having to go back to SP1.