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Hello,

I had a total computer failure (vista 32 bit laptop) and am unable to boot from that computer's old hard disk which has all my neat receipts data.

I have a backup, but lost about two weeks worth of scanning work since the prior backup. 

Is there any way to get that lost data back? 

My new computer is running vista 64 and I have upgraded to version 4.0 of NeatWorks. 

I still have the old hard disk and I can see all the neat receipts program files in there, is there anyway to recover the data from them?

 Thank you for any info

 

To be honest Larson, I don't know a ton about data recovery. I know if you need it badly, you can always get a company to get the data for you. It may cost you a little bit of cash, but if you would like those receipts back, simply try taking it to a local data recovery pro. they'll know if you can get it off safely for sure.

Thanks Randy,

 Actually, I can see the all the Neat Receipts data on the old hard disk no problem, the problem is I can't boot off that disk to run the old version of neat Receipts to make a backup of the last two weeks of data. 

I'm wondering if I can do something like "Fast find->Find all Receipt Folders" and point it to the old installation of Neat Receipts 3.0 on the old hard drive.  Something like that.

Thank you -Julie

To be more specific:

 My last backup was on October 17, 2009.  Since then I did a lot of scanning before my machine died. 

In the NeatReceipts Professional folder under Program Data, there are some folders:  idx, logs and config which show activity as late as October 29, 2009.  Under the idx folder there are a group of recent files: _fql.cfs, deletable, segments, _fpw.cfs, _fp9.del, _fp9.cfs, _fjf.del, _fo1.cfs, _fjf.cfs.  One of these files, _fjf.cfs is 2 MB large, possibly contains my missing data? 

If there are any tools or methods for retrieving the lost data, I would be deeply grateful.

Thanks for any info

 

Through reading other forum messages, I've managed to deduce that my missing data is sitting in the old sql server database files on the old hard disk

  Directory of F:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data

10/16/2009  02:06 AM    <DIR>          .
10/16/2009  02:06 AM    <DIR>          ..
03/31/2009  05:27 PM               517 150C6C1B-5D0D-41C4-B480-68D338074D69.cer
07/11/2008  02:06 AM               517 416104CE-A2BF-474A-819C-E9460E27AD26.cer
03/13/2008  04:26 PM               517 62849524-FE0E-452E-976B-584A1E6A2B79.cer
03/31/2009  05:26 PM               517 94E35A95-47C0-4DF7-B2BA-079C470BD928.cer
02/21/2009  03:08 AM               517 C9452D33-258A-4EA9-818C-63B0FE8B0D7C.cer
10/16/2009  02:06 AM               517 DA10A18F-D868-4DCE-B8A1-5BA5C38BD0D0.cer
10/29/2009  08:33 AM       112,132,096 ImageDB10_Data.mdf
10/30/2009  12:56 PM         1,048,576 ImageDB10_Log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM       141,819,904 ImageDB1_Data.mdf
10/29/2009  09:01 PM         1,048,576 ImageDB1_Log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM       123,338,752 ImageDB2_Data.mdf
10/29/2009  08:31 PM         1,048,576 ImageDB2_Log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM       123,338,752 ImageDB3_Data.mdf
10/29/2009  08:00 PM         1,048,576 ImageDB3_Log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM       126,615,552 ImageDB4_Data.mdf
10/29/2009  07:30 PM         1,048,576 ImageDB4_Log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM       123,338,752 ImageDB5_Data.mdf
10/29/2009  06:59 PM         1,048,576 ImageDB5_Log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM       128,909,312 ImageDB6_Data.mdf
10/29/2009  05:47 PM         1,048,576 ImageDB6_Log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM       123,338,752 ImageDB7_Data.mdf
10/29/2009  05:16 PM         1,048,576 ImageDB7_Log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM       123,338,752 ImageDB8_Data.mdf
10/29/2009  04:46 PM         1,048,576 ImageDB8_Log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM       135,725,056 ImageDB9_Data.mdf
10/29/2009  04:15 PM         1,048,576 ImageDB9_Log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM         4,194,304 master.mdf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM         2,621,440 mastlog.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM         1,245,184 model.mdf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM           524,288 modellog.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM         8,323,072 msdbdata.mdf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM         6,422,528 msdblog.ldf
11/24/2008  01:27 PM           524,288 mssqlsystemresource.ldf
11/24/2008  01:27 PM        40,304,640 mssqlsystemresource.mdf
10/29/2009  08:31 AM         9,895,936 nrprofessional_Data.mdf
10/29/2009  09:32 PM         2,097,152 nrprofessional_Log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM         2,097,152 NRQueue.mdf
10/29/2009  08:33 AM         1,048,576 NRQueue_log.ldf
10/29/2009  08:38 AM         2,097,152 tempdb.mdf
10/29/2009  08:38 AM           524,288 templog.ldf
              40 File(s)  1,354,304,542 bytes

Are there any tools or methods out there for reclaiming my lost data from these SQL server data files?

Help?  Thank you

-Julie