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A disaster just happened on my computer!
Outlook Express was compacting the messages on my hard drive when there was a power surge. Later when I restarted my computer, all of my email messages from the past year had been wiped out! I don't know how to get them back. Please help me, if anyone has any ideas. Thanks.
Other than doing a forensic on the hard drive, perhaps try a system restore to the day before this happened.
Yeah, just restore from your backups.....
It would help to know the OS version you're running in order for us to provide the proper recovery instructions?
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I already tried the system restore without success.Quote:
Originally Posted by VehiX
My OS is XP (mce). Thanks for any more ideas.
I have not ever used any of these tools/steps (I use Linux/Thunderbird) but, I guess you do not have much to loose at this point...
http://www.softlakecity.com/outlook_...s_download.htm
http://www.codeconscious.com/outlook...-oe-inbox.html
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx
http://www.kennedysoftware.ie/rebldoe.htm
http://www.gaijin.at/dloemxtr.php
Good Luck!
Buy a Mac...That crap never happens to me.
never happened to me either.....Windows FTW....
on a serious note, try a HD recovery program. i forgot the name ill get back to u on that.
what happens exactly when you try to restore to earlier date ? errors, messages - more details please.
You should be able to restore to the last archive if you are in Outlook - there will be an archive pst. That'll get you most of your older emails. Or if you use Outlook Express there should be a .bak file that will be your backup there.
-- John