Aromagician
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I am wondering of anyone can assist in advising me on this one. Our receptionist got a bit carried away and deleted some files, that I preferred to have kept on the computer. As a result I wish to restore. Some emails, some other formats.
I have recovered them, using data recovery Pro, but as we back up every night, they are now .bak files ( from recycle bin). Or from the message store are .dbk files. Data recovery Pro couldnt read them, so could preview them so have probably recovered way more than I needed to.
I followed some advice I googled which said to try and read using notepad. I tried this and it seemed to make all the files in the recovered folder look like notepad. Another well meaning friend said to open them all in Word. And now they all look like word files ( the .bak ones that is ) Neither worked, it just made them look like gobbledygook.
I have copied them from office computer - Windows Xp, so can work in restoring at hme on laptop which is Vista.
Is this possible, or do they need to be restored on original computer. The computer man said if I bring the whole hard drive in he can do it, but am hoping for a simple Solution that I can do myself ( forever hopeful.)
Any ideas?
I have recovered them, using data recovery Pro, but as we back up every night, they are now .bak files ( from recycle bin). Or from the message store are .dbk files. Data recovery Pro couldnt read them, so could preview them so have probably recovered way more than I needed to.
I followed some advice I googled which said to try and read using notepad. I tried this and it seemed to make all the files in the recovered folder look like notepad. Another well meaning friend said to open them all in Word. And now they all look like word files ( the .bak ones that is ) Neither worked, it just made them look like gobbledygook.
I have copied them from office computer - Windows Xp, so can work in restoring at hme on laptop which is Vista.
Is this possible, or do they need to be restored on original computer. The computer man said if I bring the whole hard drive in he can do it, but am hoping for a simple Solution that I can do myself ( forever hopeful.)
Any ideas?