Hello, Express Accounts only offers the option to restore the data if a backup was made from within the program, if you created the backup from the program itself then you may have the chance to recover your eleven months of work. To create the backup you need to go to Accounts (upper left hand corner of the program's window) and choose Back Up Data.., If you did not created the backup like this then there is no way to restore the data. I don't think I have to go through your 4 questions but just in case:
1- You can only retrieve the data if a backup was created as described above.
2- We do not know where the data is if you restore your windows.
3- You can only retrieve the data if a backup was created as described above.
4- The program stores the data locally as a .dat
Did I miss. something?
I believe you missed to created the backup for your data
What options do I have?
You can start again and create backups regularly or enable to backup scheduler from within the "Backup data option"