Urgent: Outlook '07 Back-Up Problem

In preparation to install W7, I started backing up all of my data to an external HD. I followed the instructions linked from here on how to back up Outlook '07 from Vista HP but now all of my data from it is gone. Outlook is still there, but no data.

In Documents, there are Archive, Backup & Outlook icons but when opened say, "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Assoc. control panel" which I haven't done. The same is true for the copy I made to the external HD.

What happened and more importantly, how do I retrieve this critical missing data? I didn't delete anything or even move it.

Thanks!

Vista Home Premium, 32bt, Outlook '07

You failed to include any link to 'instructions'
You have to open an outlook data file from within OL and not via explorer

"saidas108" saidas108[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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In preparation to install W7, I started backing up all of my data to an
external HD. I followed the instructions linked from here on how to back
up Outlook '07 from Vista HP but now all of my data from it is gone.
Outlook is still there, but no data.
In Documents, there are Archive, Backup & Outlook icons but when opened
say, "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing
this action. Create an association in the Set Assoc. control panel" which
I haven't done. The same is true for the copy I made to the external HD.

What happened and more importantly, how do I retrieve this critical
missing data? I didn't delete anything or even move it.

Thanks!
Vista Home Premium, 32bt, Outlook '07

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"saidas108" saidas108[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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In preparation to install W7, I started backing up all of my data to an
external HD. I followed the instructions linked from here on how to back up
Outlook '07 from Vista HP but now all of my data from it is gone. Outlook is
still there, but no data.

Sorry, but there are no instructions "linked from here". Please be explicit
in describing exactly what you did.

In Documents, there are Archive, Backup & Outlook icons but when opened say,
"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this
action. Create an association in the Set Assoc. control panel" which I
haven't done. The same is true for the copy I made to the external HD.

You cannot open any PST from Windows by double-clicking on it. You open them
from within Outlook with FileOpenOutlook Data File.

What happened and more importantly, how do I retrieve this critical missing
data? I didn't delete anything or even move it.

Only you know what happened becuse only you did whatever it was. Until you
share it with us, we can't begin to tell you how to fix it.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

How often are you going to repost this very same question without following
up on the answers you have been given?

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
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http://www.msoutlook.info/
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"saidas108" saidas108[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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In preparation to install W7, I started backing up all of my data to an
external HD. I followed the instructions linked from here on how to back
up Outlook '07 from Vista HP but now all of my data from it is gone.
Outlook is still there, but no data.
In Documents, there are Archive, Backup & Outlook icons but when opened
say, "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing
this action. Create an association in the Set Assoc. control panel" which
I haven't done. The same is true for the copy I made to the external HD.

What happened and more importantly, how do I retrieve this critical
missing data? I didn't delete anything or even move it.

Thanks!
Vista Home Premium, 32bt, Outlook '07

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