Restore HP iPAQ
September 11th, 2008 by chris
My HP iPAQ ran out of battery this morning. When I started it up, the memory was blank. When I tried to restore my files using Windows Mobile Device Center under Windows Vista, I got an annoying message saying that “Restore cannot be completed successfully. The selected backup file was created from a different type of mobile device.”
Aargh!
Fortunately, the kind people at http://www.filesaveas.com/pocketpcactivesync.html had the solution:
You’ll see this under a couple of circumstances: either you’ve recently done a software upgrade (a new release of the operating system / ROM upgrade) and are trying to restore a backup that applies to the older software operating system. More commonly, you’ll see this after having reset your machine, and the device is set to a different region to the region in use when it was backed up (it defaults to US English). Go to ‘Settings > System > Regional settings’, and switch to the appropriate language.
In my case, I had to set the language to English (UK) and then restore ran smoothly.
I hope this helps someone.
Yes, this definitely helped someone. Thanks a lot!
so b***** simple ! Fantastic. Was trying to work out if I had updated MS Pocket PC or the iPaq rom ! Thanks.
Thank you – this seemed to work for me also.
That save me a lot of heartache! Thanks