Yes, I did a full re-installation, but not before I made a backup of my files
onto my external harddrive with Retrospec.

"Tom Willett" wrote:

By reinstallation, do you mean format the computer? If so, the data is
gone.

"Sue" wrote in message
...
|I have a Dell Laptop that is having some issues. Recently, (by request of
| Dell) I backed up my system and did a re-installation. I made back up
copies
| of everything except one thing... my email and my contacts. UGH! My
question
| is, is there anyway for me to restore those files from Outlook Express so
| that I can at least get my contacts back? I'm not so concerned about the
| email, although that would be nice to have back to, but I would really
like
| to get my address book recovered. Does anyone know if this is possible and
if
| so, which files should I look for on my backup?
|
| Thank you very much,
| Sue...