REQ: Help oh Help I have done a bad thing with my c drive while upgrading

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Roscoe P Pendoscoe - 24 Jan 2007 13:35 GMT

from a 40 gig that was failing to a new 250 gig and the Seagate
software defaulted to the windows interface and I let it go instead of
using DOS.

The process locked up at 80% and after an hour I restarted hoping it
had a place to pick it up where it left off. No soap.

I am a dope. I am in trouble.

Data is spread between the 2 drives, and the new drive even though it
is jumpered as slave is the "C" drive and the old 40 is now "D".

Yikes!

My wife connects through my computer to the internet and cannot now
and she just started a new semester of school. Did I tell you I am in
trouble?

Any help with Outlook would be a first step as I have restored my
connection but Outlook says "invalid data path".

I have found the outlook.pst file. Does anyone know how I can get this
back into use?

And also ICS is jacked up

PLEASE,

Roscoe aka MrShade

Knowledge is like money, the less you talk about it
the more people assume you have.

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Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I] - 25 Jan 2007 00:56 GMT

Most drive copying software only reads from (doesn't write to) the source
drive, so the data on the old 40 should be intact. I should think you'd be
able to wipe the new 250 and start over with the correct interface. As to
Outlook, this article should help you reuse your old PST file:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx
Reconnect your old Outlook data file

Hal

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> from a 40 gig that was failing to a new 250 gig and the Seagate
> software defaulted to the windows interface and I let it go instead of
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> Knowledge is like money, the less you talk about it
> the more people assume you have.

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Roscoe P Pendoscoe - 30 Jan 2007 11:57 GMT

Thank you for the reply.

Sorry for late response back but I could not locate the thread in
Agent for some reason.

One "small " issue Hal is that the new 250 is now been renamed "C" and
the Old 40 is named "D" for some very odd reason..The very strange
part is that the new drive is the slave and the old 40 is still
jumpered master.

I have tried repeatedly to copy my *.pst Outlook file to the proper
place described in the article but I continually get "path is
invalid" error and then it tries to repair Outlook then fails and then
closes.

Any other suggestions?

BTW, I have renewed my cable connection but not my network in it's
entirety. It has saved my life, literally as my Wife can connect to
take her tests online but not do homework as Word does not work.

Also, I have ALL my important CD's in 2 carousel storage devices
connected via USB and are not operating to retreive CD's needed for
re-install programs.

I have built approximately 20-25 computers for myself and friends and
this is the worst thing I have ever done. This is the 2nd newest and
it has been the worst performer from the beginng. I do have many
important back-up files that ARE accessible on 2 160's in a RAID array
I can still access though thankfully. A small joy.

Again, thanks for helpful info and I will keep trying with Outlookas I
was in the middle of some very important e-mail messages

Regards,

Roscoe aka MrShade

>Most drive copying software only reads from (doesn't write to) the source
>drive, so the data on the old 40 should be intact. I should think you'd be
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>
>Hal

Knowledge is like money, the less you talk about it
the more people assume you have.

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