[AccessD] OT: ^%$&^%(*&)(*&)%$&#$^%$@

Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software bchacc at san.rr.com
Fri May 2 09:15:15 CDT 2003


John:

Don't know if this will help but:

http://www.abfsoftware.com/

Check the Outlook Backup utility.  Should allow you to backup the Outlook
stuff from your backup computer and reload it on the new one.  Maybe.

BTW, what's a NTLDR?

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 6:56 AM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: ^%$&^%(*&)(*&)%$&#$^%$@


> Well, today my NTLDR wouldn't!  Or wasn't, depending on who you talked to!
>
> I never did get it back, but after 4 hours of trying I had succeeded in
> getting a floppy to boot (I had a weird boot config as well) and then
> succeeded in getting Office apps to run windows setup every time they
> loaded, trashed IE and so forth and so on.
>
> So... I went down, bought a new 120mb hard disk, and started over.  I did
> this of course so that I didn't overwrite anything (else) in the process
of
> getting windows working again.  Installed Win2kSP.  Of course no network,
> video, sound and most critically drivers for the Promise100 IDE 3/4 where
my
> old disks now reside.  More hours searching for CDs and floppies for those
> things, searching the internet (on my other computer - thank GOD for "the
> other computer").
>
> Of course I then spent several hours applying service packs, reloading O2K
> (only, so far), Norton utilities, NAV, and am still in the process of
> re-installing everything I can think of that I used to have.  The weird
> thing is that I have my outlook.pst, but that apparently doesn't have the
> personalized settings in it for things like rules, signature, etc.
>
> Anyway, still loading stuff!
>
> WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A
PITA!WHAT
> A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A
> PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!
>
> My question to you kind folks, where the (*&%)%$#!@ are rules / sig and
the
> like kept for Outlook?
>
> It seems like you would just copy the entire jcolby user and be back with
> all that kind of stuff.  The problem of course is that there is stuff in
> there for programs that don't exist (at least in the same place) etc.
>
> Sigh!
>
> John W. Colby
>
>
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