blubot Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 hi, wanted to restore my PC (XPSP2) to an earlier date after selecting the restore date, PC boots normally and then error message appears: cannot restore to this date...No changes have been made to PC...Can someone pls help...is there another way to restore the PC to earlier date?I already tried some other dates with the same result...I read in the forum that disabling the system restore and reenabling it could solve the problem...but doin this means I loose all previous restore points...Can anyone help?Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Are you ensuring that the restore date you are selecting is in bold characters in the calendar? If it isn't then a restore is not possible for that day.If it doesn't work at all then, yes, turning off System Restore and turning it back on again will often remedy the fault but, as you say, you will lose all restore points but then,again, if you can't access them , they're not much use anyway.No help to you at the moment but, it is always advisable to have a full backup of your computer system and, what I do is that I ALWAYS make a backup before making any changes such as installing new programs etc.Someone else may be able to offer better news but, things aren't looking good at the moment. Don't do anything drastic yet.By the way, welcome to Windows Forum :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blubot Posted January 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 thnaks for your infor and welcoming me to the forum...actually I always do backup my PC...I dont know what happened this time...I simply forgot...is there no way of retrieving the removed program...(btw I deleted MSoffice with outlook and in there my emails)how can I get those emails back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 A few freeware data recovery programmes here http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/system/f...arecovery.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 This program is small and standalone, it does not require installation and can also run from a Floppy diskhttp://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.htmlIf you've overwritten the files already ................... who knows ?So this might give you the best chance ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blubot Posted January 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 actually I did select a date that was in bold...I tried a few dates but all with the same result...cannot restore the system to these dates....is there any other way I can retrieve my deleted emails...actually I do alwaysd backup, but I forgot this time...(duh! I know) had some problem with my outlook so I decided to delete and reinstall MS office...without backing up...any other way of getting those mails back? Is system restore in another way possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Try this freeware program it retrieved e-mails for me that I had deleted over 3 months ago.http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blubot Posted January 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 ok thanks for the info...so how do I find those deleted emails...which file extension do they use? basically I deleted the whole MS office...will it be back on the PC and running nowmally when I retrieve the files? I am really a beginner here so I am not really familiar with those apps... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Microsoft Outlook uses the PST file format i.e. xxxxxxx.PSTTry to recover them first (if you can) .... and then re-install Office ?You might want to use this for safety after you're working properly again ?http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pfbackup.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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