Recovery manager did not recover specific type of files

Question

I tried to boot the PC in "Safe Mode" by pressing F8 key at the time of boot. However PC did not boot in  "Safe Mode" .  So I booted it normally and then open "MSCONFIG" menu.  In this menu I opted for Safe Boot under advance option.  and then opted for rebooting the PC.  However PC did not booted at all.  All along it kep showing various DOS commands and then welcome Screen but thereafter PC used to crash  and back and forth these activities continued.  In order to get of this vicious cycle I tried cold booting by switching off the PC from socket.  Then when I tried to boot PC it showed two option one was for normal booting and other was for revoking the startup recovery manager menu.  Since normal booting was not possible as "MSCONFIG" menu was configured for booting in "Safe Mode'' and PC just refused to boot in "Safe Mode".  Hence only option that was left is to revoke Startup Recovey solution.  In Startup recovery menu offered two solution one was "system restore" which I tried but system could not restore to point I suggested.  I tried system resore point of older date but system could not restore that point it did displayed some error message.  Hence only option that was left was to System Recovery.   The system recovery prompted me to take backup which I took.  I saw it was copying many many files.  The size of backup on my Pen drive was about 8 GB.  Thereafter the system was recovered.  Normal booting of Windows was also restored. Now I tried to restore my data.  The data was restored.  Even outlook mails of the size of 4 GB were restored.  But on further observing the data which was in my erstwhile My Document folder I was shocked to know that certain files with extension .123, .apr, .adx, .lwp were not restored.  These files were created by my use of Lotus Smartsuite software.  I used to extensively use Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Approach and Lotus WordPro for my work.  I also observed that .dbf files were also not restored.  Well this is a native file format like .txt and .jpeg.  Actually when one  use Lotus Approach it creates three files one is .adx file that is index file. the other is .apr file which is a database viewer file and the other is .dbf files in which all data is stored.  All such files were not resored by HP recovery Manager.  This is the problem I am facing.  I still have .exe file of the size of 8 GB on my Pen Drive.  Is there any way to restore files with extension I mentioned above ???

Answer 1

You are correct.  That link no longer works and I could not locate it again.  Here is a thread from the forums:http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Recovery/HP-File-Recovery-Manager-has-stopped-working/td-p/1502475?send_feedback=true&thread_id=678725&clicked_thread_id=1502475I noticed in your first post "The size of backup on my Pen drive was about 8 GB. "  I have found in other comments on the forums that possibly not all files one thought were being backed were in fact backed up.  Check in the folder on the flash drive to see if the ones missing are in fact there.  The person in that above thread actually had all the files.