Windows 10: How to open Access from the old drive?

Discus and support How to open Access from the old drive? in Microsoft Office and 365 to solve the problem; I have a client that had an employee intentionally permanently delete their work off a laptop. This employee also uninstalled the programs associated... Discussion in 'Microsoft Office and 365' started by mathews, May 18, 2017.

  1. MATHEWS
    mathews Win User

    How to open Access from the old drive?


    I have a client that had an employee intentionally permanently delete their work off a laptop.
    This employee also uninstalled the programs associated with some of the data. Using data recovery software I was able to recover everything that had been deleted that had not been over-written.
    I was able to recover some files that had been partially overwritten and figured that more than likely this would corrupt data files so they would not open.
    So far I have been able to open most of the Excel files and Word documents. I have not however been able to open any of the Access Databases. I have tried opening the Databases with Access 2007 and with OpenOffice in hopes that I could access the data and possibly resave it.
    I still have the old drive that I can extract data from and have specifically searched the deleted data for these Access Databases and made sure that I was getting one that was 100% intact. I was still unable to open these databases to view. I receive an error message that the database is in an unrecognized format in both Microsoft Access and OpenOffice. I really need to be able to access some of this data if not all of it, any help would be appreciated.

    :)
     
    mathews, May 18, 2017
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  2. OGREEN
    OGreen Win User

    How to access the old Windows 8 wallpaper personalization menu in Windows 10?

    I used to be able to access the old windows 80 desktop wallpaper personalization through using the run command

    CTRL + R 'control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper'

    This no longer works, it just brings me to the really bad Win10 background settings window.
     
    OGreen, May 18, 2017
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  3. ZACHD [MSFT]
    zachd [MSFT] Win User
    How to access the old Windows 8 wallpaper personalization menu in Windows 10?

    You can still use:

    shell:::{ED834ED6-4B5A-4bfe-8F11-A626DCB6A921} -Microsoft.Personalization\pageWallpaper

    to get to that old control panel interface.
     
    zachd [MSFT], May 18, 2017
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  4. JL2509
    jl2509 Win User

    How to open Access from the old drive?

    Hi There

    I had a similar problem with old DBs

    It is mainly down to the version of access which they were created/saved.

    I had to install an older version of access and save the files as new format to be able to open them in a newer access version.
    I know you should be able to open the files and convert or save as, but it did not work for me either...

    Try installing a 2010 version

    Hope this helps
     
    jl2509, May 18, 2017
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  5. FAFHRD
    Fafhrd Win User
    It also depends on whether the database has multiple MDB files (Front-end and Back-end databases) and any other ODBC data sources, and the way the paths to the various components are stored. Without documentation it can be a nightmare to unravel how an Access database needs to be laid out in order to function fully.
     
    Fafhrd, Apr 5, 2018
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