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Manual Database Recovery from Image without having a NR Database Backup Instance

  •  09-19-2009, 8:25 PM

    Crying [:'(] Manual Database Recovery from Image without having a NR Database Backup Instance

    Hi all,

    Well, I am in a bit of a predicament, and hoping there's someone out there that can assist. I was running Neatworks 4 (the .exe shows a version of 4.5.288) on a laptop that was running Windows Vista x64. During that time, I had made one backup, but had since made significant additions to my receipts. During that time, I had thankfully created an image using OO DiskImage. Unfortunately, this image will not boot once restored, however, I am able to mount the drive so I can see my drive as it was before the crash. I had not performed a dB backup within neatworks, obviously the easy method of restoring my database is not available, especially since I can't get the image to boot in order to run the dB backup utility.

     So, how can I migrate my data from the image (mounted as an external disk)? Is there a way, either using the SQL Express that is installed with NW, or via a full instance of SQL server, to get the data restored? I have access to SQL expertise that may be able assist me if it's more complicated than I expect. I have hundreds of hours invested in these receipts and I don't want to have to re-live the nightmare I experienced when I had to start from scratch when NR went from ver 3 to ver 4.

     Please help! TIA!!!

     

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