Outlook .pst horror story.

[thomsbrain]

Here's my sob story. You can all give me hugs.

Got the dreaded agp440.sys problem and ended up having to reformat. Accidentally deleted my backed up pst folder when i was copying files off the hard drive. Backed up pst file on CD from a month ago is screwed and wouldn't open. The pst fixer utility claimed to have fixed it but it didn't actually recover anything. All my email from 5+ years, and all my email/phone contacts are down the drain. FVCK YOU MICROSOFT!

ok, time for hugs.

 

[igowerf]

Hmm..... I guess I'll do it....

::hug::

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: igowerf
Hmm..... I guess I'll do it....

::hug::

man, you need a shower.

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

Originally posted by: igowerf
Hmm..... I guess I'll do it....

::hug::

man, you need a shower.

LOL...

This is one of those terrible instances when you realised that the actions you have taken have just made you lose something that literally cannot be replaced...you try and think of ways to get round it but ultimately there are none....

Back in the days of an increased level of computer ignorance....I had changed my 2GB hard drive for an 8GB one in my crappy old packard bell....

I was using the master disk and thought that it would just format the 2GB ghosted partition I had for the OS....nope...the whole lot...collections of images and sound clips etc....gone....emails...the lot....sigh...damn it!

Glad I backup now, recently backed up my MP3 collection.....35 CD-R's....now that took a while but good peace of mind!

Jamie

 

[eklass]

wait, so it's MS's problem that you deleted your SH!T and then couldn't copy a backup off a defective CD?

seems like a user error to me

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I unfornately have a hand in this little club too. I was installing my second processor, and setting up the RAID 1 array, and I deleted the 200GB hd. 50+ gigs of mp3z, gone. All ripped through 9 years of collecting. Luckily I had everything else backed up, so I only lost a lot of stuff that will take a long time to replace... Oh well. FTP Server will be up soon.
-IC2

 

[bozo1]

Backed up pst file on CD from a month ago is screwed and wouldn't open.

Did you copy the PST file from CD to your hard drive and unflag it read-only? If you try to run it from the CD or don't mark it writable after copying from CD, they act like they are corrupted.

 

[Softballslug]

Originally posted by: eklass
wait, so it's MS's problem that you deleted your SH!T and then couldn't copy a backup off a defective CD? seems like a user error to me

I must agree. Its not Microsofts problem and / or fault that YOU deleted the files. Take ownership of where the problem lies, we've all done it!

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: bozo1

Backed up pst file on CD from a month ago is screwed and wouldn't open.

Did you copy the PST file from CD to your hard drive and unflag it read-only? If you try to run it from the CD or don't mark it writable after copying from CD, they act like they are corrupted.

Yeah, I did that, taking advice I got from AT's handy search function. Still no luck, the pst file was corrupted.


As for it being my fault, well yes of course it's my fault I deleted the file, and you can bet i banged my head against the wall a few times. But it's microsoft's fault that Outlook has a crappy record of having corrupted pst files that has screwed over many people (search on this board, I'm not the only one that has been screwed), and it's microsoft's fault that a big bug with Window's handling of agp and aspi files has yet to be fixed (again, i'm not the only who's been screwed by this basically unfixable problem in 2K/XP). if my windows installation hadn't developed the well documented agp440 hang, it wouldn't have been an issue in the first place, and my good backup would have still been intact (backed it up that very day to my other hard drive). basically microsoft's incompetence combined with my mistake to make me very sad.