Help!! can I recover lost contacts?

[Carl R]

I just got a new windows smart phone. My celluar provider was assiting me to
preform a sync. of all my contacts. There were no contacts on the phone I
preformed the sync and when the sync. was over it wiped out all the comp.
contacts in office contacts. The celluar provider said hmmm wonder what
caused that. Anyways I think what happened is that the path the sync follows
is phone (which was blank) to comp. back to phone. If this is the caseThis
tech should of know better, but who am I to blame the only person's fault is
mine ,I should of did a PST back up of thoes files. Life is full of should
of's, could of's and would of's. So my question is can I recover those
contact files, with out having to ship off the hard drive to get it hacked
or what ever they do?
Thanks Happy Holidays
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Microsoft Office 2003 Version
Students and Teachers Edition
Windows Vista Home Premium

Thank-you
Carl R

 

[Russ Valentine]

Afraid not. As you said, one would never attempt a sync without first
backing up data since synchronization changes are permanent.
Are you sure you don't have an older profile or installation of Outlook that
might contain your Contacts? Have you searched your drive for other PST
files?