*** PLEASE HELP!! Computer disaster!

[UtahVXer]

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.

[Anita]

Other than doing a forensic on the hard drive, perhaps try a system restore to the day before this happened.

[Tone]

Yeah, just restore from your backups.....

[VehiX]

It would help to know the OS version you're running in order for us to provide the proper recovery instructions?

:work:

[UtahVXer]

It would help to know the OS version you're running in order for us to provide the proper recovery instructions?

:work:

I already tried the system restore without success.
My OS is XP (mce). Thanks for any more ideas.

[v2]

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_express/outlook_express_download.htm
http://www.codeconscious.com/outlook-express/corrupted-oe-inbox.html
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
http://www.kennedysoftware.ie/rebldoe.htm
http://www.gaijin.at/dloemxtr.php

Good Luck!

[HOT_WASABI_JUNKIE]

Buy a Mac...That crap never happens to me.

[MZ-N10]

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.

[Andrey]

what happens exactly when you try to restore to earlier date ? errors, messages - more details please.

[johnnyapollo]

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