Data Restore Question (Vista Home Premium)

I recently encountered a harddrive problem on my Dell laptop. Dell sent me a
new drive (with factory image). At that point my system was marginally
stable but I had a full image backup (using Acronis) that was only 4 days
old. The only personal data that I cared about that was not covered by that
backup was some email, and I was able to do a Vista Backup of only my email
(at that point Acronis was complaining mightily about a multitude of bad
sectors, etc). I then installed the new drive and reloaded it with Acronis.
That restored my system to pretty much the identical state that it was in on
1/13.

When I went to restore my email files, Vista backup only acknowledges that
last Vista backup that I had done (1/5/09) before I did the full image save
via Acronis. Even though I can see the files in my backup drive (USB-2
harddrive) I am not able to Restore them.

My email store is pretty big - is there a way to get a couple days worth of
email files back (Windows Live Mail)?

Thanks.

dave

"Dave Lee" <> wrote in message
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> I recently encountered a harddrive problem on my Dell laptop. Dell sent me
> a new drive (with factory image). At that point my system was marginally
> stable but I had a full image backup (using Acronis) that was only 4 days
> old. The only personal data that I cared about that was not covered by
> that backup was some email, and I was able to do a Vista Backup of only my
> email (at that point Acronis was complaining mightily about a multitude of
> bad sectors, etc). I then installed the new drive and reloaded it with
> Acronis. That restored my system to pretty much the identical state that
> it was in on 1/13.
>
> When I went to restore my email files, Vista backup only acknowledges that
> last Vista backup that I had done (1/5/09) before I did the full image
> save via Acronis. Even though I can see the files in my backup drive
> (USB-2 harddrive) I am not able to Restore them.
>
> My email store is pretty big - is there a way to get a couple days worth
> of email files back (Windows Live Mail)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> dave

Sorry - looks like Advanced Restore is the answer here.

dave