Trouble.....
Friday, May 2, 2003 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I seem to be one hard-drive short.
C is XP OS
D is XP OS backup [swappable caddies]
J is new data backup....160gig [was hearing 'noises' from the other backup]
H is old data backup....except it ain't there.....
Mucho stuff....like a few work files not burned....
All the games....
...and those things you know you'll miss months later when you can't find them...
Looks like I'm gonna be a bit busy for a while....
C is XP OS
D is XP OS backup [swappable caddies]
J is new data backup....160gig [was hearing 'noises' from the other backup]
H is old data backup....except it ain't there.....
Mucho stuff....like a few work files not burned....
All the games....
...and those things you know you'll miss months later when you can't find them...
Looks like I'm gonna be a bit busy for a while....
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Jafo
Reply #22 Saturday, May 3, 2003 5:15 AM
Reply #22 Saturday, May 3, 2003 5:15 AM
no...had to extract the messages to Express [with Express] because Outlook crashes on loading.
Tried an Office repair...no good.
Will go for Deleting Office and reinstall instead...[should work]...
Tried an Office repair...no good.
Will go for Deleting Office and reinstall instead...[should work]...
Styl-X Design
Reply #24 Saturday, May 3, 2003 7:54 AM
@ dark mist.
Such things happends jafo, imagine how I felt when my hard disk stopped with it, the thing in my 2e comp was working as a server, have to re-do my site... well, needed to be updated anyway
Reply #24 Saturday, May 3, 2003 7:54 AM
@ dark mist.Such things happends jafo, imagine how I felt when my hard disk stopped with it, the thing in my 2e comp was working as a server, have to re-do my site... well, needed to be updated anyway
Jafo
Reply #25 Tuesday, May 6, 2003 9:07 PM
Reply #25 Tuesday, May 6, 2003 9:07 PM
Well...got it all together again.
Disabled virus checking and defragging on the 'iffy' drive to minimise head 'work', and partitioned the drive into 4 so that if the problem is specific to one area of the disk surface the other partitions 'should' be OK....unless the boot sector fries or there's a full mechanical failure...
Outlook was 'frustrating'. I tried the Scanpst.exe file to see if the pst was damaged...it wasn't, so I backed it up and deleted its normal position.
That didn't work...still crashed.
Uninstalled Office 2k and reinstalled.
That didn't work...still crashed.
Scratched my head some more.
That didn't work...still crashed.
Got desperate and deleted the files from...
C:\Documents and Settings\Paul Martin\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
And from...
C:\Documents and Settings\Paul Martin\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
And, presto...it loaded.
And asked for the pst location...I pointed to it and all was well again...
It was the other folder's settings that were corrupted.
Of course, dunno why it happened, but just glad I managed to sort it...
Disabled virus checking and defragging on the 'iffy' drive to minimise head 'work', and partitioned the drive into 4 so that if the problem is specific to one area of the disk surface the other partitions 'should' be OK....unless the boot sector fries or there's a full mechanical failure...
Outlook was 'frustrating'. I tried the Scanpst.exe file to see if the pst was damaged...it wasn't, so I backed it up and deleted its normal position.
That didn't work...still crashed.
Uninstalled Office 2k and reinstalled.
That didn't work...still crashed.
Scratched my head some more.
That didn't work...still crashed.
Got desperate and deleted the files from...
C:\Documents and Settings\Paul Martin\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
And from...
C:\Documents and Settings\Paul Martin\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
And, presto...it loaded.
And asked for the pst location...I pointed to it and all was well again...
It was the other folder's settings that were corrupted.
Of course, dunno why it happened, but just glad I managed to sort it...
craeonics
Reply #27 Wednesday, May 7, 2003 1:01 AM
Reply #27 Wednesday, May 7, 2003 1:01 AM
So that poor old drive was getting blamed for nothing then?
Jafo
Reply #29 Wednesday, May 7, 2003 5:53 AM
Reply #29 Wednesday, May 7, 2003 5:53 AM
Thanks, Richard....
Crae, no...a head-crash locked the system while reading/writing to the drive. The only way out was a hot reboot, and I'm betting the Outlook config files were accessed/being written to at that instant and were corrupted.
System freezes do all sorts of fun things.
With mine it was losing Outlook...
Crae, no...a head-crash locked the system while reading/writing to the drive. The only way out was a hot reboot, and I'm betting the Outlook config files were accessed/being written to at that instant and were corrupted.
System freezes do all sorts of fun things.
With mine it was losing Outlook...
craeonics
Reply #31 Wednesday, May 7, 2003 6:51 AM
Reply #31 Wednesday, May 7, 2003 6:51 AM
Hmm, you'd think you'd find Scandisk running after that reboot then. But anyhow, good that it is solved.
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Reply #21 Saturday, May 3, 2003 3:14 AM