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I finally bought a recovery program from Easus which is really good, it recovered a lot of the partition intact. All my data is back.
I put another drive into the computer, loaded XP on that and ran Easus to look at the files on the "RAW" partition.
I still have a problem with the data that maybe someone has come across before and can help me with.. I am trying to recover the favorites and emails for aol and the favorites for IE. I know they must be in the mix of raw files the Easus program recovered for me but I cannot identify them. The recovery program has them listed in groups depending on the file extension and if I knew what extension is used by IE to store the favorites I could go through them and maybe find it, replace the file in the new version of IE I loaded and so recover the information. The emails in aol also must be there, if I knew the extension I could similarly replace the file in the new aol installation. AOL says that I can recover the favorites, since they are stored on the server as well as in the PC, but when I run that program it fails. However I can get them from another computer since the favorites are stored the same on any computer, I will just have to type them in manually.
It would also help if I knew the location of the necessary files in IE, so that I replace the right ones!
Once I have all that sorted out I can format the broken drive and maybe use it again, even for a backup! See I am learning, even if slowly.
I put another drive into the computer, loaded XP on that and ran Easus to look at the files on the "RAW" partition.
I still have a problem with the data that maybe someone has come across before and can help me with.. I am trying to recover the favorites and emails for aol and the favorites for IE. I know they must be in the mix of raw files the Easus program recovered for me but I cannot identify them. The recovery program has them listed in groups depending on the file extension and if I knew what extension is used by IE to store the favorites I could go through them and maybe find it, replace the file in the new version of IE I loaded and so recover the information. The emails in aol also must be there, if I knew the extension I could similarly replace the file in the new aol installation. AOL says that I can recover the favorites, since they are stored on the server as well as in the PC, but when I run that program it fails. However I can get them from another computer since the favorites are stored the same on any computer, I will just have to type them in manually.
It would also help if I knew the location of the necessary files in IE, so that I replace the right ones!
Once I have all that sorted out I can format the broken drive and maybe use it again, even for a backup! See I am learning, even if slowly.
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If you go to this website you can enter an extension and it will give you a list of programs that will open the extention type. http://filext.com/
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Favourites in Windows are simply folders with web names as titles I believe. Not sure how you would isolate them. You could try a search through whatever data you have got to look for, say, PPrune or some other known favourite and see what you get. As for AOL, unless they can give you the file extension I know not. You could try sending yourself an AOL email to see what you get?
