Hard drive failure, BCM 2003 contacts missing

[maggyver]

I experienced a hard drive crash but was able to image my drive before
it completely failed. I installed Outlook w/BCM 2003 (BCM v.1) on the
new drive and imported my PST file, then brought over the old .ldf and
..mdf files as described by creating a new BCM database with the same
name, stopping the BCM service, then replacing the files, then
restarting the service, then reopening Outlook. My BCM contacts were
still missing. I noticed that the file size of the new database files
was the same as the old files - 10 and 25MB. This makes me worried that
my BCM contacts were somehow stored somewhere else?

I've been scouring Google and this newsgroup for several hours and
haven't found anyone else (yet) with this particular issue so I'm
hoping someone here can tell me if I've missed a step in the process.
In the meantime I was able to restore a backup from my laptop's BCM but
it was nowhere NEAR complete and I'm still missing a huge chunk of my
data. Please help!! Thanks

 

[Luther]

The first step would be to find out if there are any records in this
database.

You can connect to it with this osql command:
OSQL -E -S .\microsoftsmlbiz -d msbusinesscontactmanager
{Substitute your own instance or database name if they differ.}

Then, at the OSQL, get a count of the records:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ContactMainTable

That should return the total number of Contacts, etc, in your database.
If it returns 0, then that database is empty.

 

[hpacc_98]

I have a similar problem. My hard drive crashed and I didn't have backup. I
sent the failed drive to a data recovery service and they were able to
retreive everything except one small .dll file. I now have all of my old
information on 4 dvd's but I cannot find my contact database. I don't even
know what to look for. Someone please help.

 

[Luther]

The BCM database is typically in this directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Business Contact Manager