On Jul 14, 12:57 pm, J Ottery <jott...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Using XP Pro and Postgres 8.3 > I made a backup of the "Data" directory of the Postgres Installation > to another place on the hard disk. > Now the customer has uninstalled postgres then reinstalled a new one. > Of course the original tables are all gone. > Is there a method of retrieving the original tables and data from the > backedup Data directory. > I hope so or I am in shit. AS a follow up. The problem is I can no longer start the Postgres Server (just says starting).