sync w/ new laptop,,, contacts gone!

[jamespaulritter]

Hello all,

My hard drive crashed on my old laptop. I bought a new one but haven't installed MS Office. I set up the sync connection to tether and now most of my contacts and calendar are gone.

What could have happened?

Any way to retrieve them?

[jamespaulritter]

I have been reading around on the net for a few hours and this looks to be a very common problem after switching computers and setting up a new partnership. It also looks like if you dont use an exchange server and do not have outlook installed on the desktop to catche deleted items then you are out of luck.

I cant believe WMDC is suppose to act this way! It says you have to delete a partnership and since your other PC is gone you delete the partnership. You expect that the device will populate outlook on the desktop or if outlook is not on the desktop then nothing will be touched.

But NO,,, microsoft is set up to delete all your precious data from your phone without warning!!!

THANKS microsoft!!!