Re: Outlook 2002 How to Retrieve Hard Deleted Items?
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:48:08 -0700
Vera wrote:
Yesterday I accidentally deleted pages of mail from an Outlook
profile.
Looking for a solution, I finally followed instructions in Microsoft
Knowledge Base article 256986, creating a new registry file which
supposedly would enable a Deleted Item Recovery function on the Tools
menu in Outlook.
It didn't.
I then tried System Restore, 3 times with 3 different restore points,
each time receiving the message 'Your System Could Not Be Restored To
This Point'. I haven't gone to look up how to check if System Restore
is off, since my understanding is that turning it on couldn't give me
an earlier restore point anyway.
Can anyone advise as to where and how I could find the deleted pst
info before it disappears forever?
I've been using this computer hardly at all since the deletion
incident to minimize data buildup and skipped the daily backup last
night also. My OS is XP pro.
If you haven't overwritten the .pst file with any other .pst file, then
probably you can get it back with data recovery software. Here are some
links to various programs. I use Easy Recovery Pro, but it is
expensive. People whom I respect have recommended R-Studio and
Restoration. YMMV. If you use data recovery software, install it on
another machine and either use it from that operating system or create
a bootable cd/floppy and work with that.
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
PCInspector File Recovery -
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/welcome.htm
Executive Software “Undelete” -
http://www.execsoft.com/undelete/undelete.asp
R-Studio - http://www.r-tt.com/
Ontrack's EasyRecovery - http://www.ontrack.com/software/
The alternative is to send the drive to a professional data recovery
company like Drive Savers (my preference) or Seagate Data Recovery.
General prices run from $500USD on up. Drive Savers recovered all the
data on a failed laptop drive for one of my clients and it cost $2,700.
He thought it was worth the money; only you know what your data is
worth. Some insurance companies will cover data recovery expenses under
"Loss of Intellectual Property".
Drive Savers - http://www.drivesavers.com
Seagate Data Recovery Services - https://www.seagatedatarecovery.com/
If you don't have the skill and/or equipment to do the software
procedures and the data is crucial, take the machine to a professional
computer repair shop that has experience in doing data recovery. This
will not be your local version of BigStoreUSA. In-shop data recovery is
usually not exactly cheap (for ex., my charges are generally
$150-350USD), but it normally costs less than sending the drive to a
company like Drive Savers. You need to make the determination of the
value of your data and decide what to do.
Malke
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www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
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