Outlook Express email recovery

Jack · External Since: Apr 16, 2006 Posts: 20

I am recovering data post a crash and have managed to view the 'crashed'
drive using a second drive with identical operating system.
The only thing that appears to be wrong is that the boot sector is corrupt
(after the BIOS screen I get black with flashing cursor in the top left hand
corner).

The only things (critical data to be recovered before formatting) I can't
find on the crashed drive are the Outlook Express emails.
Does anyone know where (and how) Outlook Express saves these and how I can
transfer them to disk to be replaced post the format?

Of course I'd much prefer to simply repair the boot sector but the dos
chkdsk followed by fixdisk commands failed to do so. Dell helpline, funnily
enough, suggested formatting the drive and re-installing.

Any ideas?

Jack

Jim Pickering · External Since: Aug 01, 2006 Posts: 575

If you are running Windows 2000 or XP, the DBX files in your old message
store are marked as hidden by the operating system. To find them, when
conducting the search program, make sure to click the Advanced button
and ensure that you have checked to search for hidden files. Create a
folder on your Desktop on the working drive, and copy the contents of
the store folder from the damaged drive to that folder (making sure you
include folders.dbx) and then just open Outlook Express and use its
menu, File/Import/Messages/OE6/From a Message Store and point to the
folder on your Desktop that contains the DBX files.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
feedback.

"Jack" <Jack DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:32B24268-DF5A-42EE-906D-22933E6AF246@microsoft.com...
>I am recovering data post a crash and have managed to view the
>'crashed'
> drive using a second drive with identical operating system.
> The only thing that appears to be wrong is that the boot sector is
> corrupt
> (after the BIOS screen I get black with flashing cursor in the top
> left hand
> corner).
>
> The only things (critical data to be recovered before formatting) I
> can't
> find on the crashed drive are the Outlook Express emails.
> Does anyone know where (and how) Outlook Express saves these and how I
> can
> transfer them to disk to be replaced post the format?
>
> Of course I'd much prefer to simply repair the boot sector but the dos
> chkdsk followed by fixdisk commands failed to do so. Dell helpline,
> funnily
> enough, suggested formatting the drive and re-installing.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jack

Jack · External Since: Apr 16, 2006 Posts: 20

Awsome!! Found them. Thanks a lot. Smile

.

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

> If you are running Windows 2000 or XP, the DBX files in your old message
> store are marked as hidden by the operating system. To find them, when
> conducting the search program, make sure to click the Advanced button
> and ensure that you have checked to search for hidden files. Create a
> folder on your Desktop on the working drive, and copy the contents of
> the store folder from the damaged drive to that folder (making sure you
> include folders.dbx) and then just open Outlook Express and use its
> menu, File/Import/Messages/OE6/From a Message Store and point to the
> folder on your Desktop that contains the DBX files.
> --
> Jim Pickering
> MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
> Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
> feedback.
>
>
> "Jack" <Jack.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:32B24268-DF5A-42EE-906D-22933E6AF246@microsoft.com...
> >I am recovering data post a crash and have managed to view the
> >'crashed'
> > drive using a second drive with identical operating system.
> > The only thing that appears to be wrong is that the boot sector is
> > corrupt
> > (after the BIOS screen I get black with flashing cursor in the top
> > left hand
> > corner).
> >
> > The only things (critical data to be recovered before formatting) I
> > can't
> > find on the crashed drive are the Outlook Express emails.
> > Does anyone know where (and how) Outlook Express saves these and how I
> > can
> > transfer them to disk to be replaced post the format?
> >
> > Of course I'd much prefer to simply repair the boot sector but the dos
> > chkdsk followed by fixdisk commands failed to do so. Dell helpline,
> > funnily
> > enough, suggested formatting the drive and re-installing.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Jack
>

Jim Pickering · External Since: Aug 01, 2006 Posts: 575

Glad to hear it and thanks for the feedback.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
feedback.

"Jack" <Jack DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:838E953E-E5D7-4FCE-AC5D-44E56505951C@microsoft.com...
> Awsome!! Found them. Thanks a lot. Smile

.
>
> "Jim Pickering" wrote:
>
>> If you are running Windows 2000 or XP, the DBX files in your old
>> message
>> store are marked as hidden by the operating system. To find them,
>> when
>> conducting the search program, make sure to click the Advanced button
>> and ensure that you have checked to search for hidden files. Create
>> a
>> folder on your Desktop on the working drive, and copy the contents of
>> the store folder from the damaged drive to that folder (making sure
>> you
>> include folders.dbx) and then just open Outlook Express and use its
>> menu, File/Import/Messages/OE6/From a Message Store and point to the
>> folder on your Desktop that contains the DBX files.
>> --
>> Jim Pickering
>> MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
>> Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
>> feedback.
>>
>>
>> "Jack" <Jack DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:32B24268-DF5A-42EE-906D-22933E6AF246@microsoft.com...
>> >I am recovering data post a crash and have managed to view the
>> >'crashed'
>> > drive using a second drive with identical operating system.
>> > The only thing that appears to be wrong is that the boot sector is
>> > corrupt
>> > (after the BIOS screen I get black with flashing cursor in the top
>> > left hand
>> > corner).
>> >
>> > The only things (critical data to be recovered before formatting) I
>> > can't
>> > find on the crashed drive are the Outlook Express emails.
>> > Does anyone know where (and how) Outlook Express saves these and
>> > how I
>> > can
>> > transfer them to disk to be replaced post the format?
>> >
>> > Of course I'd much prefer to simply repair the boot sector but the
>> > dos
>> > chkdsk followed by fixdisk commands failed to do so. Dell helpline,
>> > funnily
>> > enough, suggested formatting the drive and re-installing.
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Jack
>>

Raymond MULLER · External Since: Aug 22, 2006 Posts: 2

xxx
"Jack" <Jack.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
32B24268-DF5A-42EE-906D-22933E6AF246.TakeThisOut@microsoft.com...
>I am recovering data post a crash and have managed to view the 'crashed'
> drive using a second drive with identical operating system.
> The only thing that appears to be wrong is that the boot sector is corrupt
> (after the BIOS screen I get black with flashing cursor in the top left
> hand
> corner).
>
> The only things (critical data to be recovered before formatting) I can't
> find on the crashed drive are the Outlook Express emails.
> Does anyone know where (and how) Outlook Express saves these and how I can
> transfer them to disk to be replaced post the format?
>
> Of course I'd much prefer to simply repair the boot sector but the dos
> chkdsk followed by fixdisk commands failed to do so. Dell helpline,
> funnily
> enough, suggested formatting the drive and re-installing.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jack

kachonka · External Since: Sep 23, 2009 Posts: 1

You info really helped me. I used two different online downloads and they
would not recover anything. I searched the .dbx files, made a folder.dbx on
the desktop and put the files in it and imported. AWESOME. The only thing is
for some reason it gave me 8 copies of each mail. Who knows what I did.
THANKS!

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

> If you are running Windows 2000 or XP, the DBX files in your old message
> store are marked as hidden by the operating system. To find them, when
> conducting the search program, make sure to click the Advanced button
> and ensure that you have checked to search for hidden files. Create a
> folder on your Desktop on the working drive, and copy the contents of
> the store folder from the damaged drive to that folder (making sure you
> include folders.dbx) and then just open Outlook Express and use its
> menu, File/Import/Messages/OE6/From a Message Store and point to the
> folder on your Desktop that contains the DBX files.
> --
> Jim Pickering
> MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
> Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
> feedback.
>
>
> "Jack" <Jack.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:32B24268-DF5A-42EE-906D-22933E6AF246@microsoft.com...
> >I am recovering data post a crash and have managed to view the
> >'crashed'
> > drive using a second drive with identical operating system.
> > The only thing that appears to be wrong is that the boot sector is
> > corrupt
> > (after the BIOS screen I get black with flashing cursor in the top
> > left hand
> > corner).
> >
> > The only things (critical data to be recovered before formatting) I
> > can't
> > find on the crashed drive are the Outlook Express emails.
> > Does anyone know where (and how) Outlook Express saves these and how I
> > can
> > transfer them to disk to be replaced post the format?
> >
> > Of course I'd much prefer to simply repair the boot sector but the dos
> > chkdsk followed by fixdisk commands failed to do so. Dell helpline,
> > funnily
> > enough, suggested formatting the drive and re-installing.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Jack
>